1. Saib Tabrizi was an Iranian poet, regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets, known as the ghazal.
18 Facts About Saib Tabrizi
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Saib Tabrizi stayed for a time in Kabul and in Kashmir, returning home after several years abroad.
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Saib Tabrizi's reputation is based primarily on some 300,000 couplets, including his epic poem Qandahar-nama.
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Saib Tabrizi was especially well known for his Persian panegyric poetry during the reigns of Persian Emperors Safi, Abbas II and Suleiman.
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Saib Tabrizi was either of Persian or Azerbaijani ancestry, with Azerbaijani as his native tongue.
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Saib Tabrizi's birth date is uncertain; he was most likely born at the end of the 16th-century, as he mentions his age being eighty in one of his poems.
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Saib Tabrizi was born with the name Mirza Mohammad Ali in the city of Tabriz in Safavid Iran.
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Saib Tabrizi's father was the wealthy and prominent merchant Mirza Abd-al-Rahim, while his paternal uncle was Shams-al-Din of Tabriz was skilled in calligraphy, for which he received the nickname Shirin Qalam.
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Saib Tabrizi received his education at home and started engaging in poetry exercises when he was a little child.
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Saib Tabrizi apparently made this choice as a response to self-serving individuals who attempted to turn Shah Abbas I against him.
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Saib Tabrizi arrived in Kabul and met with the governor of the city, Mirza Ahsan-Allah Zafar Khan.
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Saib Tabrizi formed a close friendship with Zafar Khan who was his primary patron over the next few years.
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Saib Tabrizi accompanied Zafar Khan and his father on military campaigns in the Deccan Plateau, before returning to Isfahan in 1632.
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Saib Tabrizi spent the remainder of his life in Isfahan, leaving the city only to visit other Iranian cities.
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Saib Tabrizi maintained a relationship with the Safavid courts and dedicated poems Abbas II and Shah Soleyman III.
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Saib Tabrizi seems to have withdrawn from the public eye in his final years, only receiving a small number of students and literary supporters from all around the Persian-speaking world.
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Saib Tabrizi died in 1676 and was buried in a garden retreat in Isfahan.
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Saib Tabrizi developed a method which was called Indian method.