Mahmoud Saba
Mahmud Khan Malek al-Sho'ara (1813–1893/94) was a poet laureate, court painter and statesman in 19th-century Qajar Iran. He was the son of Andalib and grandson of Fath-Ali Khan Saba, the previous poet laureates in the Iranian court.
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- Name
- Mahmud Khan Malek al-Sho'ara
- Born
- 1813
- Birthplace
- Tehran, Qajar Iran
- Died
- 1893/94
- Place of death
- Ray, Qajar Iran
- Occupation
- calligrapher · poet · painter
- Languages
- Persian
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Mahmud Khan Malek al-Sho'ara (1813–1893/94) was a poet laureate, court painter and statesman in 19th-century Qajar Iran. He was the son of Andalib and grandson of Fath-Ali Khan Saba, the previous poet laureates in the Iranian court.
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• Name — Mahmud Khan Malek al-Sho'ara • Born — 1813 • Birthplace — Tehran, Qajar Iran • Died — 1893/94 • Place of death — Ray, Qajar Iran • Children — Mirza Jafar Khan Ali Hasan Khan • Relatives — Fath-Ali Khan Saba (grandfather) • Father — Andalib
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Mahmoud Saba is recorded as calligrapher, poet and painter.
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1813
Mahmoud Saba born at Tehran.
1893
Mahmoud Saba died.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Floor, Willem. Art (Naqqashi) and Artists (Naqqashan) in Qajar Persia. Muqarnas. Brill. 13. 125–154. 1999. 10.2307/1523268.
- Habibi, Negar. Echoes of Empire: The Paintings of Mahmud Khan Malek al-Shuʿarā in Late Qajar Iran (1860–1900). Iranian Studies. 1–20. 2025. 10.1017/irn.2025.10085.
- Katouzian, Homa. Iran: Politics, History and Literature. Routledge. 2013. 978-0415636902.
- Rahman. Munibur. Ṣabā.
- Rypka, Jan. History of Iranian Literature. Springer Netherlands. 1968. 978-9401034814.
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