Hamedan-2018

The Oryan Mystic

Tughril Beg Aboutaleb (993 – 1063 A.D.) was establishing one of the greatest and most art-fostering dynasties of Iranian history of Islamic era that a child named Baba Tahir was born in the ancient land of Medes around 1000 A.D. who became one of the greatest mystics of Iranian history. Baba was the nickname that was given to the free followers, and Oryan (The Naked) was due to cutting off the worldly attitudes. He lived about 85 years and devoted his whole life to profession of dervish and humility which was the way of mystics, and he could eternalize his name by composing do-baytī (literally "two-couplet") in the history of Iranian and Hamedan literature.

Tomb of Babataher - Photo:F.Chardowli

Baba Tahir's tomb is on the top of a hill in the north of Bactria of Hamedan. Over the course of centuries, this structure has witnessed numerous destruction and reconstruction. The age of the main Baba Tahir's tomb reaches the Seljuq dynasty, and a brick octagonal tower was built in the 6th-SH century on the Baba Tahir burial site which was later destroyed by time. At the time of the first Pahlavi, the Hamedan municipality built a new structure instead of the old one which was mostly made of bricks. In the course of this rebuilding, the 7th-SH tile was obtained which is now held at the Museum of Ancient Iran. On this turquoise tile, Qur'anic verses are written in the stereoscopic Kufic calligraphy. The construction of a new structure was carried out in 1344 SH with the assistance of the Society for National Heritage of Iran and Hamedan municipality and by the engineer Mohsen Foroughi.