Qatran Tabrizi

Qatran Tabrizi
The Maqbaratoshoara in Tabriz, Iran, where Qatran is buried
The Maqbaratoshoara in Tabriz, Iran, where Qatran is buried
Native name
قطران تبریزی
Born1009–1004
Shadiabad, Azarbaijan, Rawadid dynasty
Diedafter 1088
Ganja, Arran, Shaddadid dynasty

Qatran Tabrizi (Persian: قطران تبریزی; 1009–1014 – after 1088) was a Persian[1] 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 neighbouring region of Transcaucasia, mainly serving as a court poet under the local dynasties of the Rawadids and Shaddadids.

  1. ^ Dehghan 1978, p. 773.