Persian poet
Abolqasem Mahout's statue (right) at Tajik Writers Union building, Dushanbe
Abolq?sem Lah?t?
(
Russian
:
Абулькасим Ахмедзаде Лахути
,
romanized
:
Abuljkasim Ahmedzade Lahuti
;
Tajik
:
Абул?осим Ло?ут? / ????????? ??????
,
romanized
:
A?ulqosim Lohut?
; 12 October 1887 ? 16 March 1957) was an
Iranian
-
Soviet
poet and political activist who was active in
Iran
during the
Persian Constitutional Revolution
and in
Tajikistan
in the early
Soviet era
.
Biography
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Born on 12 October 1887 in
Kermanshah
to an Iranian cobbler and religious poet
[1]
named
Mirza Ahmad Elhami
,
[2]
he began writing poetry in early adolescence under the pen name
Lahuti
(which
Encyclopædia Iranica
translates as 'belonging to the world of the occult').
[1]
His first poem was printed in the newspaper
Habl al-Matin (magazine)
in
Calcutta
at the age of 18,
[2]
and in his twenties his poems were published in several prestigious publications.
[1]
He soon entered politics and even received a medal from
Sattar Khan
for his efforts.
[2]
Initially, he went to clerical school, but then went to
Bulgaria
and wrote many poems on
Islam
. He then came back to Iran, and enlisted in the armed forces, and graduated as Captain in rank.
[2]
After being convicted by a court in
Qom
and sentenced to death, he fled to
Turkey
, but soon returned and joined forces with Sheikh
Mohammad Khiabani
in
Tabriz
. His forces defeated
Mahmud Khan Puladeen
's troops, but were soon disbanded by freshly dispatched forces. He fled to
Baku
.
[2]
While living in
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
, he became interested in
Communism
. After marrying a Russian student by the name of Cecilia Bakaleishchik, who would become a Persian poet and translator under the pen name
Cecilia Banu
(
Sisil Banu
),
[3]
he was unable to initiate a
coup d'etat
against the central government of Iran, so he gave up and moved to
USSR
where he remained until his final days.
[2]
In 1925, he went to
Dushanbe
and joined the friends of
Sadriddin Aini
. His poetry was welcomed by audiences and gained him the position of the founder of Soviet Tajik poetry.
[4]
Lahuti is the author of the
Tajik SSR anthem
. Lahuti's other works include "Kovai Ohangar" ("Kaveh the Blacksmith", 1947), "Qasidai Kremel" ("Ode to the Kremlin", 1923), and "Toj va Bairaq" ("The Crown and the Flag", 1935). His collection of poetry, in six volumes, was published between 1960 and 1963.
He died on March 16, 1957, in
Moscow
.
[4]
References
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]
- ^
a
b
c
"LAHUTI, Abu'l-Qasem"
.
Encyclopædia Iranica
. 2009-04-20.
Archived
from the original on 2021-11-05.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
'Ali Riz? Awsati (?????? ?????),
Iran in the Past Three Centuries
(
Ir?n dar Se Qarn-e Goz?ashteh
? ????? ?? ?? ??? ?????), Volumes 1 and 2 (Pakt?b Publishing ? ???????? ??????, Tehran, Iran, 2003).
ISBN
964-93406-6-1
(Vol. 1),
ISBN
964-93406-5-3
(Vol. 2).
- ^
Slezkine, Yuri (2017).
The House of Government
.
Princeton University Press
. pp.
483
-
484
.
ISBN
9781400888177
. Archived from
the original
on 2021-12-10
. Retrieved
2021-12-10
.
- ^
a
b
Iraj Bashiri,
Prominent Tajik figures of the twentieth century
, Dushanbe, 2002
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