Aref Qazvini

Abol-Qasem Aref Qazvini was born in Qazvin around 1880, the son of a mullah, Hadi, who had him sing laments at the foot of the pulpit and wear the turban, which he took off at his father's death. He learned music from Mirza Sadeq Kharrazi, married in secret at seventeen a young girl whom he had to leave, and did not remarry. Having gone up to Tehran, where his voice was noticed, he supported the constitutionalists, left for Istanbul in 1916 and joined Colonel Pesyan in 1921. Ill, he went to Hamadan around 1928 and died there in January 1934.

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• PoetryدیوانAref Qazvini · 1924not translated into EnglishLiterature