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Thu, 05/30/2013 - 15:07
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Proposal to name day after poet Saib of Tabriz approved

TEHRAN,May 30(MNA) -- Iran’s High Council of Public Culture (HCPC) agreed to the Culture Ministry’s proposal to register a day on the Iranian calendar to be named after the poet Saib of Tabriz (1601-1677), the minister of culture and Islamic guidance announced on Tuesday. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the National Congress of Saib of Tabriz at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall, Mohammed Hosseini said, “We obtained the approval of the council, but we expect the experts on Saib to help choose a day on the calendar.” “His birthday or the anniversary of his death will be registered on the calendar, when the dates are determined,” he added. Saib of Tabriz was one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets and known as the ghazel. Saib was educated in Esfahan, and in about 1626/27 he traveled to India, where he was received into the court of Shah Jahan, the Mogul emperor who built the Taj Mahal. He also spent a few years in Kabul and in Kashmir. After his return, Safavid king Shah Abbas II bestowed upon him the title of King of Poets. Saib’s reputation is based primarily on some 300,000 couplets, including his epic poem Qandahar-nama (“The Campaign Against Qandahar”). His “Indian style” verses reveal an elegant wit, a gift for the aphorism and the proverb, and a keen appreciation of philosophical and intellectual exercise. Photo: A bust of poet Saib of Tabriz in Isfahan

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