Abolqasem Lahuti

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Abolqāsem Lahūtī

Abolqāsem Lahūtī (also Abu al-Qasim Lahuti , Abu'l-Qasem Lahuti , Tajik Абулқосим Лоҳутӣ , Persian ابوالقاسم لاهوتی, Abulqosim Lohuti ; * October 12, 1887 in Kermanshah , Iran ; † March 16, 1957 in Moscow ) was a political poet and activist.

Persia

Lahuti's father was the Persian poet Mirza Ahmad Elhami, and his first published poem appeared in the Habal al-Mateen newspaper in Kolkata, Calcutta , in 1905 . He was a staunch opponent of the absolutist rule of the Qajar dynasty in Iran , took part in the constitutional revolution against Mohammed Ali Shah , and was honored by Sattar Khan for this. After Sattar Khan's death, he emigrated to Bulgaria, where he wrote poetry about Islam . During the First World War he returned to Persia, joined the army and became a captain. After the end of the war he was sentenced to death by a court in Qom for socialist activities , but he managed to escape to Turkey . He soon returned and joined the rebels under Sheikh Mohammed Khiabani in Tabriz , who protested against the drastic restriction of Persian sovereignty by the so-called "Friendship Treaty" signed on August 9, 1919 with Great Britain and the short-lived republic of "Azadistan" (Land of freedom). After the uprising was put down, he fled to Baku .

Tajikistan

He then lived in Nakhichevan , where he turned to communism and married Sisil Banu, a Russian poet. And his hope for a socialist revolution in Tehran did not meet, he moved in 1923 to Moscow and then in 1925 to the Central Asian Dushanbe , in the 1924 Soviet republic Tajik ASSR , today's Tajikistan , where he joined the circle around Sadriddin Ayni joined. His lyrical and "real socialist" poems were very popular and he became one of the founders of modern Soviet-Tajik poetry.

Works

Lahuti is the author of the national anthem of Tajikistan. Other works are Qasidai Kremel ("Ode to the Kremlin," 1923), Toj va Bairaq ("The Crown and the Flag," 1935) and Kovai Ohingar ("Kaveh the Blacksmith," 1947). A six-volume collection of his poems was printed in 1960–1963.

Lahuti died in Moscow on March 16, 1957. His portrait can be found today on the Tajikid 1 Somoni banknote .

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SURNAME Lahuti, Abolqasem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lahūtī, Abolqāsem; Lahuti, Abu al-Qasim; Lahuti, Abu'l-Qasem; Абулқосим Лоҳутӣ; ابوالقاسم لاهوتی; Lohuti, Abdulqosim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian and Tajik poets
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kermanshah , Iran
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1957
Place of death Moscow