Mirza Fazlollah Khavari Shirazi Explained

Mirza Fazlollah Khavari Shirazi
Birth Date:1776–1785
Birth Place:Shiraz, Zand Iran
Death Date:1849/50
Death Place:Shiraz, Qajar Iran
Occupation:Historian and poet

Mirza Fazlollah Khavari Shirazi (fa|میرزا فضل الله خاوری شیرازی) was a historian and poet in Qajar Iran, who composed the, an important chronicle for early Qajar history.

A native of Shiraz, he was born between 1776 and 1785. His father was Mirza Abdonabi Sharifi-Hosseini and his mother was the daughter of Agha Mohammad Hashem Zahabi. He died in 1849/50 in Shiraz, where he was buried. 15,000 couplets of qasidas and ghazals make up his divan (collection of poems) named Mehr-e Khavari.

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. Behrooz . Maziar . Maziar Behrooz . Iran at War: Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia . 2023 . I.B. Tauris . 978-0-7556-3737-9.