Maqbarat-o-shoara (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

: مقبرةالشعرا) or the Mausoleum of Poets (

: ''Mazār-e Shāerān'' or ''Mazār-e Sorāyandegān'') is a

Maqbara The Arabic language, Arabic word ( "mausoleum"; ''plural'': ''maqâbir'') is derived from the word qabr, which means grave (burial), grave. Though refers to the graves of all Muslims, it refers especially to a Muslim cemetery. In some Islamic ...

(graveyard) belonging to classical and contemporary

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ian poets, mystics and other notable people, located in the Surkhab district of

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. Since the 1970s, there have been attempts to renovate the graveyard area. Some work has been carried out like the construction of a new symbolic building on this site.

Notable burials

Asadi Tusi Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi (; – 1073) was a Persian poet, linguist and author. He was born at the beginning of the 11th century in Tus, Iran, in the province of Khorasan, and died in the late 1080s in Tabriz. Asadi Tusi is considered a ...

(999–1072) – poet *

Qatran Tabrizi Qatran Tabrizi (; 1009–1014 – after 1088) was a Persian writer, who is considered to have been one of the leading poets in 11th-century Iran. A native of the northwestern region of Azarbaijan, he spent all of his life there as well as in the ...

(1009–1072) – poet * Anvari Abivardi (1126–1189) – poet *

Khaqani Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān (), commonly known as Khāqānī (, , – 1199), was a major Persian poet and prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as an ode-wr ...

(1122–1190) – poet *

Zahir-al-Din Faryabi Zahir-al-Din Abu-al-Fazl Tahir ibn Muhammad (; – 1201) mostly known as Zahir Faryabi () was a 12th-century Persian poet. He was born about 1156 (551 AH) in Faryab (in today's Afghanistan), and was probably of Turkish blood.Rypka (Boyle, ed.) ...

(d. 1202) – poet * Zulfaqar Shirvani (d. 1290) – poet *

Humam-i Tabrizi Humam-i Tabrizi (; 1238/39 – 1314/15), was a Sufi poet of the Ilkhanate era, who composed works in Persian, as well as some in Arabic. He was one of the most distinguished figures of his time due to his poetry, teachings, piety, and Sufi spirit ...

(1238–1314) – poet * Assar Tabrizi (1325–1390) – poet *

Maghrebi Tabrizi Muhammad Shirin Maghribi () was a Sufism, Sufi poet and scholar, who is considered one of leading composers of Persian mysticism, Persian mystical poetry in the 14th-century. Life Of Persians, Persian stock, Maghribi was born in 1349 in the vi ...

(1348–1406) – poet *

Aziz Khan Mokri Aziz Khan Mokri (also spelled Aziz Khan Mukri; ; 1792 – 1871) was an Iranian military officer and grandee, who occupied high offices under the Qajar ''shah'' Naser al-Din Shah (). He served as the commander-in-chief of the army from 1853 to 1857 ...

(d. 1870) – army general *

Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar Seyyed Mohammad-Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (January 2, 1906 – September 18, 1988), known by his pen name Shahriar, was an Iranian poet who composed works in both Azerbaijani and Persian. His most important work, ''Heydar Babaya Salam'', is co ...

(Shahriar) (1906–1988) – poet * Mahmoud Melmasi (Azarm) (1917–1991) – poet * Aziz Dowlatabadi (Darvish) (1922–2009) – poet

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Notable burials

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