WRITER

Saib Tabrizi

1592 - 1676

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Saib Tabrizi (Persian: صائب تبریزی, romanized: Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī, میرزا محمّدعلی صائب تبریزی, Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib, Azerbaijani: صائب تبریزی) was an Iranian poet, regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets, known as the ghazal. He also established the "Indian style" (sabk-i Hind) in the literature of his native language, Azerbaijani, in which he is known to have written 17 ghazals and molammaʿs. Saib was born in Tabriz, and educated in Isfahan and at some time around 1626, he traveled to India, where he was received into the court of Shah Jahan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saib Tabrizi has received more than 99,077 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Saib Tabrizi is the 3,062nd most popular writer, the 282nd most popular biography from Iran and the 33rd most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 15

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Notable Works

Divān-i Ṣāʾib
1977
Duvīst va yak ghazal-i Ṣāʼib
1987
Guharʹhā-yi rāz az daryā-yi andīshah-ʼi Ṣāʼib
1985
Kullīyāt-i Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī
1985
Gulchīn-i Ṣāʼib
1984
[Dīvān-i Ṣāʼib]
Divan-e Saib
Kulliyat-e Saib
1880
Hazār gawhar
Persian poetry, History and criticism
2011
Divān-i Ṣāʾib
1977
Guzīdah-yi shūrangīztarīn ghazaliyāt-i Ṣāʼib Tabrīzī
2013
Divan-e Saib
1885

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saib Tabrizi ranks 3,062 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahmadou Kourouma, José Donoso, Ricardo Piglia, Shulamith Firestone, Jean Astruc, and Félix Fénéon. After him are Liviu Rebreanu, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Charles-Louis Havas, Charles-Louis Philippe, and Jalil Mammadguluzadeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1592, Saib Tabrizi ranks 12. Before him are Gerard van Honthorst, Jacques Callot, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Catalina de Erauso, and Peter Snayers. After him are Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Luarsab II of Kartli, François le Métel de Boisrobert, Étienne Brûlé, Wang Shimin, and Thomas Ravenscroft. Among people deceased in 1676, Saib Tabrizi ranks 16. Before him are Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Paul Gerhardt, Francis I Rákóczi, and Abraham Bosse. After him are Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria, Nicolò Sagredo, Gisbertus Voetius, Jean Desmarets, Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, and Gerrard Winstanley.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Saib Tabrizi ranks 282 out of 631. Before him are Malek Jahan Khanom (1805), Asghar Farhadi (1972), Al-Mahani (820), Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930), Mirza Kuchik Khan (1880), and Ahmad Qavam (1876). After him are Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Ali-Morad Khan Zand (1779), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Imad al-Dawla (892), Shirin Neshat (1957), and Mastoureh Ardalan (1805).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Saib Tabrizi ranks 33. Before him are Nima Yooshij (1897), Raffi (1835), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Ubayd Zakani (1301), Asadi Tusi (999), and Abolqasem Lahouti (1887). After him are Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Mastoureh Ardalan (1805), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Kader Abdolah (1954), and Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886).

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