Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar محمدتقی بهار | |
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| Born | 10 December 1886 Mashhad, Sublime State of Iran |
| Died | 22 April 1951 (aged 64) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran |
| Occupation | Poet, politician and journalist |
| Literary movement | Persian literature |
| Notable works | Tārikh-e Sistān Tārikh-e Mokh'tasar-e Ahzāb-e Siāssi |
| Spouse |
Sodabeh Safdari (m. 1919) |
| Children | 6, including Mehrdad |
| Parents | Mohammad Kazem Sabouri |
| Website | |
| bahar-site | |
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (Persian: محمدتقی بهار; also romanised as Mohammad-Taqī Bahār; 10 December 1886 in Mashhad – 22 April 1951 in Tehran), widely known as Malek osh-Sho'arā (Persian: ملکالشعراء) and Malek osh-Sho'arā Bahār ("poet laureate," literally: the king of poets), was a renowned Iranian poet, scholar, politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character. Bahar was father of prominent Iranist, linguist, mythologist and Persian historian Mehrdad Bahar.