Mohammad Taqi Sepehr
Iranian historian
Mirza Mohammad Taqi Sepehr (Persian: میرزا محمدتقی سپهر), also known as Mirza Mohammad Taqi Kashani, or with the honorific Lesan ol-Molk (lit. 'The Tongue of the Kingdom/Country'; 1801–1880), was an Iranian court historian and littérateur of the Qajar era. He wrote with the pen name Sepehr ("celestial sphere"), and is known for authoring the lengthy Persian chronicle Nasekh ol-tavarikh-e salatin-e Qajariyeh ("The Abrogator of Histories: On Qajar Rulers"), also simply known as the Nasekh ol-tavarikh.
Biography
Sepehr was born in 1801 in Kashan and enjoyed a studious youth. He eventually settled in the capital of Tehran in his younger years and became a protegé of the artist and writer Fath-Ali Khan Saba, who likewise originated from Kashan. When Qajar shah Mohammad Shah (r. 1834-1848) ascended the throne in 1834, Sepehr was appointed his private panegyrist, as well as secretary and accountant in the Iranian treasury (monshi va mostowfi-e divan). In 1853 Naser al-Din Shah gave him the honorary title "Lesan ol-Molk", which translates as "The Tongue of the Kingdom/Country".
Sepehr died in March 1880. He was the grandfather of the historian Abd-ol-Hoseyn Malek ol-Movarrekhin.
Works and writing style
He wrote with the pen name (takhallos) "Sepehr", which translates as "celestial sphere".
Sepehr completed the Barahin ol-Ajam in 1835; the work deals with Persian prosody and is exemplified by examples from the medieval Persian poets.
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