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Yadollah Maftun Amini

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Yadollah Maftun Amini
یدالله مفتون امینی
Born(1926-06-12)12 June 1926
Died1 December 2022(2022-12-01) (aged 96)
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
Years active1957–2022

Yadollah Maftun Amini (Persian: یدالله مفتون امینی; 12 June 1926 – 1 December 2022) was an Iranian poet.

Early life

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Yadollah Amini, whose literary nickname was Maftun, was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran.[1] He did his early education up to the end of high school in Tabriz before moving to Tehran. He studied in Tehran University's Faculty of Law.

Literature works

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Maftun Amini started with classical-style Persian Poetry, but gradually proceeded to modern and non-rhythmic Persian Poetry in the 1980s. Other than poems in Persian, Maftun wrote poems in his mother tongue, Azerbaijani. Ashiqli Karvan was Maftun's first Azerbaijani poetry collection. A major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgia.

Personal life and death

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Maftun Amini died on 1 December 2022, at the age of 96.[2]

Works

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  • Poem collections
    • Ashiqli Karvan (Karavan of Ashiqs (singers)), 1960s, Tabriz
    • Anarestan (Pomegranate Garden), 1967, Tabriz, Ebn-e-sina Publishers
    • Ashiqli Karvan (Camel Train), 1979
    • Nahang ya Mowj (Wale or Tide), Selections of Kulak and Anarestan (1979, Tehran)
    • Fasl-e-Penhan (Hidden Season), Poem selections
    • Man va Khazan-e-toh (Me and Your Fall), 2006, Amrud Publishers
    • Shab-e-hazar-o-doh (Night of One Thousand and Two), (Includes a part in Azeri Turkish),

References

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  1. ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad (1996). Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism. Syracuse University Press. p. 187. ISBN 9780815627265.
  2. ^ "«مفتون امینی» درگذشت". ISNA. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.