Reza Qolikhan Hedayat

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Rezā Qoli Khān Hedāyat (also Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat), known as Lala bashi, was a writer and educator of Persia's royal family.

Born in 1800 in Tehran, he studied in Shiraz, Iran and entered the services of Qajarid princes, and was given the title "Amir ush-sho'ara" (Amir of the poets) and "Khan" by Fath Ali Shah during a visit to Shiraz.

He later became assistant to Nasereddin Shah's Minister of Education, and principal of Darolfonoon.

He died from a severe illness in 1871.

He wrote a Divan containing 50,000 distichs and six Mathnavis, among them the Gulistan-i Eram ("The rose garden of Eram", perhaps referring to the royal garden with the same name in Shiraz, Iran), and Tadhkirah: Majma'ul Fusahā ("The meeting place of the eloquent"), and Riyādhul Ārefin ("The gardens of the Mystics").

[edit] References used

• E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
• Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K

[edit] See also

• List of Persian poets and authors

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