Yadollah Maftun Amini
Yadollah Maftun Amini یدالله مفتون امینی | |
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| Born | 12 June 1926 |
| Died | 1 December 2022 (aged 96) Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Years active | 1957–2022 |
Yadollah Maftun Amini (Persian: یدالله مفتون امینی; 12 June 1926 – 1 December 2022) was an Iranian poet.
Early life
[edit]Yadollah Amini, whose literary nickname was Maftun, was born in 1926 in Shahindezh, West Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran.[1] He did his early education up to the end of high school in Tabriz before moving to Tehran. He studied in Tehran University's Faculty of Law.
Literature works
[edit]Maftun Amini started with classical-style Persian Poetry, but gradually proceeded to modern and non-rhythmic Persian Poetry in the 1980s. Other than poems in Persian, Maftun wrote poems in his mother tongue, Azerbaijani. Ashiqli Karvan was Maftun's first Azerbaijani poetry collection. A major part of his poems in Persian are lyrics and nostalgia.
Personal life and death
[edit]Maftun Amini died on 1 December 2022, at the age of 96.[2]
Works
[edit]- Poem collections
- Ashiqli Karvan (Karavan of Ashiqs (singers)), 1960s, Tabriz
- Anarestan (Pomegranate Garden), 1967, Tabriz, Ebn-e-sina Publishers
- Ashiqli Karvan (Camel Train), 1979
- Nahang ya Mowj (Wale or Tide), Selections of Kulak and Anarestan (1979, Tehran)
- Fasl-e-Penhan (Hidden Season), Poem selections
- Man va Khazan-e-toh (Me and Your Fall), 2006, Amrud Publishers
- Shab-e-hazar-o-doh (Night of One Thousand and Two), (Includes a part in Azeri Turkish),
References
[edit]- ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad (1996). Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism. Syracuse University Press. p. 187. ISBN 9780815627265.
- ^ "«مفتون امینی» درگذشت". ISNA. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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