Chaqani

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Depiction of Chaqani on an Azerbaijani postage stamp

Afzal ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUsmān Chāqānī Schirvānī , also Chaghani for short ( Persian افضل الدين ابراهيم بديل بن على بن عثمان خاقانى شروانى, DMG Afżal ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm Badīl b. ʿAlī b. ʿU s mān Ḫāqānī Širvānī ; * 1121 or 1122 in Shirvan ; † 1190 in Tabriz ), was an outstanding Persian poet.

Chaqani was a well-known poet and master of the Kasside who was born into a carpenter's family in Melgem near Schemacha . He lost his father at a young age and was raised by his uncle Kāfī ad-Dīn ʿUmar, a doctor and astronomer at the court of the Shirvan Shahs . Chaqani's mother was a Christian with Georgian roots.

In his youth he wrote under the nom de plume "qaqāʾiqī". After being called to the court of the Shah of Shirvan , he decided to write under the name "Chāqānī" (the Shahs also carried the title " Chāqān "). However, he soon fled the cramped environment of the palace and began a journey through the Middle East. His travels inspired him to write his most famous work, the Masnawī "Tuhfat al-Iraqain" (تحفت العراقين, Tuḥfat al-ʿIrāqain , "A Gift from the Two Iraqis " ). " Both Iraq " was the name for Mesopotamia and Persia. He also wrote the casside "The Arch of Madain" (ايوان مداين), in which he describes his impressions of the remains of the Sassanid palace at Seleukia-Ctesiphon .

When he returned home, there was a break with the court of Shirvan and the Shah Achsitan I ordered his arrest. In prison, Chaqani wrote his lamentations called "prison poems" (Ḥabsiyyāt) . After his release, he moved to Tabriz with his family. There his young son died first, then his daughter and his wife. Alone, Chāghānī also soon died in Tabriz. He was buried in the poets' cemetery in Surchab near Tabriz.

Chaqani's Dīwān also includes some Arabic poems and a collection of 60 letters.

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SURNAME Chaqani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Afzal ad-Din Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Usman, Khaghani; Khaqani; Chāqānī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Persian poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1121 or 1122
PLACE OF BIRTH Melgem near Şamaxı
DATE OF DEATH 1190
Place of death Tabriz