ʿAbd-Allāh Beg b. Aḥmad Beg Bābāmīrī Miṣbāḥ-al-Dīwān or Edeb (, born 1860–1918) was a

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poet whose poetry focused on love including

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Biography

Edeb was born in the village of Armani Bolaghi, northeast of

Bukan Bukan () is a city in the Central District of Bukan County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as the capital of both the county and the district. During the Qajar dynasty, due to the attention and residence of Aziz Khan Mokri and h ...

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in 1860 to a

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family who descended from the local

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rulers. He studied in the local

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before moving to

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for one year. He lived a life of

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, travelled, engaged in music, painting and poetry. He received the title Miṣbāḥ-al-Dīwān by his associate Crown Prince Mohammad Ali Mirza. In his mid-30s, he became ill which gradually resulted in

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Poetry

He wrote in

and the prosody, symbolism, imagery, and diction of his poetry followed the canons of classical Kurdish and Persian poetry. The main theme in his poetry was love which included eroticism and sexually explicit language. Few of his works have been published.

References

1860 births 1918 deaths Iranian Kurdish people People from Bukan {{Iran-writer-stub Kurdish poets 19th-century Kurdish people 20th-century Kurdish writers People of Qajar Iran

Biography

Poetry

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