Baba Tahir

Baba Tahir, (var. Baba Taher) (Persian: باباطاهر‎) was an 11th century poet in Persian literature and an Iranian mystic. Most traditional sources call his dialect loosely Lorī, while the name commonly applied from an early date to verses of this kind, Fahlavīyāt. Roubène Abrahamian however found a close affinity with the dialect spoken at the present time by the Jews of Hamadan.

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