Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Iran
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Baba Taher 🇮🇷

باباطاهر عریان (Known as "Baba Taher Oryan (The Naked)")
Early Mystic Poet, Dervish, Master of the Luri/Fahlaweyat Quatrain
Born c. 944 🇮🇷 Hamadan, Iran
Passed Away c. 1019 Hamadan, Iran
Lifespan 75 years old
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"If I had the wings of a bird, I would fly across mountains and deserts; for my heart is burning with a fire that water cannot quench."

Archival Overview

Venerated 11th-century wandering dervish and lyric poet whose passionate, rustic do-bayti quatrains became foundation stones of Persian folk singing.

Biographical Record

Baba Taher Oryan lived as a wandering ascetic dervish in Hamadan; his epithet 'Oryan' (The Naked) denoted his absolute detachment from worldly garments, wealth, and social pretension. When the Seljuk Sultan Tughril Beg visited Hamadan in 1055, he sought out Baba Taher, who famously admonished the supreme conqueror to govern with justice and fear God.

Baba Taher composed his poignant do-bayti (four-line stanzas) in the local Luri/Fahlaweyat dialect rather than courtly Persian. Expressing mystical heartbreak, rustic natural imagery, and yearning for divine union, his quatrains have been sung by Iranian bards to the accompaniment of the tanbur and setar for a thousand years.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Mausoleum of Baba Taher
Hamadan, Iran
GPS: 34.8000, 48.5100
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