Poem and Poets

Poem and Poets, is one of the works of the outstanding scholar, Agha Bozorg Tehrani, on the history of poem and poets. The collected works of poets are mentioned in alphabetical order.

The author
Ayatollah Sheikh Mohsen (Agha Bozorg) Tehrani, prominent Shia scholar and bibliographer, born in 1875 in Tehran. (Agha Bozorg means Great Mr). He started studying religious sciences at 10 in Tehran. During 12 years, studied different#### sciences: literature, logic, the Quran, jurisprudence & methodology and calligraphy under great masters. Agha Bozorg emigrated to Iraq and continued his studies in the presence of great scholars: Mullah Kazem Khorasani and Seyyed Kazem Yazdi and other famous scholars. He learnt Hadith under Mirza Hasan Nuri. Allameh Tehrani was one of the most prolific Islamic scholars, wrote the greatest Shia bibliography. He quoted Hadiths from many great Shia and Sunni scholars. After “Muhaddeth Nuri”, he is the most well known transmitter of Prophetic Hadiths.

Structure of the book
It includes 1991 collected works of poets which arranged alphabetically.
The poets whose collected poems are mentioned in the book: Abani, Atash, Atashi Baghdadi, Aghurlu Khan, Baba Isfahani, Hajeb Shirazi, Hasan Shamloo, Khaqani Shirvani, Dashti, Hafez, Ibn Hani Ahwazi, Taeb Tabrizi, Sanaee, Amir Moezzi, Adib Neyshaburi, Adib al-Mamalek, Iqbal Lahuri, Ghaani, Imami Heravi, Bayazi, Ash’ari, I’tesami, Ahmad Isfahani, Ibn Hujja, Ibn Ma’sum, Abi Toraab, Ardestani, Akhtar, Ahmad Deylami, Deyhim Lahijani, Dehkhoda Ghazvini, Imami Heravi, Abi Saeed Abi al-Kheyr, etc.

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