Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
محمدتقی بهار
Born10 December 1886
Mashhad, Iran
Died22 April 1951(1951-04-22) (aged 64)
Tehran, Iran
OccupationPoet, politician and journalist
Literary movementPersian literature
Notable worksTārikh-e Sistān

Tārikh-e Mokh'tasar-e Ahzāb-e Siāssi
Sabk Shenāsi
Moj'malal ol-Tavārikh val Qesās

Javāme' ol-Hekāyāt (Anthology of Stories),
Spouse
Sodabeh Safdari
(m. 1919)
Children6, including Mehrdad
ParentsMohammad Kazem Sabouri
Website
bahar-site.fr

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (Persian: محمدتقی بهار; also romanized 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.