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Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat-Tabrizi (Persian: سید محمدحسین بهجت تبریزی Azerbaijani: Məhəmmədhüseyn Şəhriyar) (1906-September 18, 1988), chiefly known by his pen name as Shahriar (or Shahryar / Shahriyar شهریار), was a legendary Iranian poet.
Born in Tabriz, an ethnic Iranian Azeri, Shahriar came to Tehran in 1921 and continued his studies in the Dar-ol-Fonoun high school and started studying me Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat-Tabrizi (Persian: سید محمدحسین بهجت تبریزی Azerbaijani: Məhəmmədhüseyn Şəhriyar) (1906-September 18, 1988), chiefly known by his pen name as Shahriar (or Shahryar / Shahriyar شهریار), was a legendary Iranian poet.
Born in Tabriz, an ethnic Iranian Azeri, Shahriar came to Tehran in 1921 and continued his studies in the Dar-ol-Fonoun high school and started studying medicine after graduation from Dar-ol-Fonoun in 1924. But he fell in love, left his studies about a year before receiving his M.D. degree, and went to Khorasan. He returned to Tehran in 1935 and started working in the Agricultural Bank of Iran.
Shahriar was the first Iranian to write significant poetry in Azeri. He published his first book of poems in 1929, with prefaces by Mohammad Taghi Bahar, Saeed Nafisi, and Pezhman Bakhtiari. His poems are mainly influenced by Hafez. His most famous poem Heydar-Baabaayaa Salaam, in Azerbaijani, is considered to be among the best modern poems in the language and has been turned into a few plays.
His most famous Azeri work Heydar Babaya Salam, Published in 1954, won the immense affection of the both the Turkic and Iranian speakers.
