Mirza Fazlollah Khavari Shirazi
Mirza Fazlollah Khavari Shirazi | |
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| Born | 1776–1785 Shiraz, Zand Iran |
| Died | 1849/50 Shiraz, Qajar Iran |
| Occupation | Historian and poet |
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| Notable works | Tarikh-e Zu'l-Qarneyn |
Mirza Fazlollah Khavari Shirazi (Persian: میرزا فضل الله خاوری شیرازی) was a historian and poet in Qajar Iran, who composed the Tarikh-e Zu'l-Qarneyn, an important chronicle for early Qajar history.[1]
A native of Shiraz, he was born between 1776 and 1785. His father was Mirza Abdonabi Sharifi-Hosseini and his mother was the daughter of Agha Mohammad Hashem Zahabi. He died in 1849/50 in Shiraz, where he was buried. 15,000 couplets of qasidas and ghazals make up his divan (collection of poems) named Mehr-e Khavari.[1]
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Afsharfar, Naser. "خاوری شیرازی میرزا فضل الله". Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation (in Persian).
Further reading
[edit]- Ashraf, Assef (2021). "Safavid Nostalgia in Early Qajar Chronicles". In Melville, Charles Melville (ed.). The Contest for Rule in Eighteenth-Century Iran: Idea of Iran Vol. 11. I.B.Tauris. pp. 81–102. ISBN 978-0755645992.
- Ashraf, Assef (2024). Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1009361552.
- Behrooz, Maziar (2023). Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-7556-3737-9.
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