Learn Persian with Chaiang Conversation, Shabeshire with Yara and Baba Toher.

...baudhair. Okay, hello and welcome to another Shabish with Yara.

Yara, thank you for joining me again.

Thanks for having me.

And today we are going to talk about another poet that might be a little bit less familiar to people, definitely to me, and that is Baba Tahir.

So, Yara, had you heard of Baba Tahir before?

Another one, no.

I have not.

I didn't hear about, I mean, I had heard Rudaki's name definitely in Tehran and on street signs and whatever, but definitely not Babataa. I had zero idea. Oh, amazing. Okay, so I had heard of Baba Tahir a little bit because my grandfather was very into him. And in the book that I mentioned before that my grandfather wrote for every member of the family, Boba Toher comes in here a lot.

And he would often talk about how Boba Toher just had very simple manual for life.

And he was from Hamadan.

So if you go to Hamidon, he has a huge shrine there.

So just like Sadie does and she does, and a lot of the poets have in different cities, he has a huge shrine there. So I think that that's, have you been to Hamidon before? You know, funnily enough, yeah, it was probably 20, I must have been like six or seven years old, but I do remember it. And one of the biggest attractions in that town, I mean, it's possibly we went to the Baba Tahir Shrine. Right. But the one thing I remember from Hamadan is the Kaura Alisad, which is the Alisad cave. It's an underground like cave and there's water and you take a boat and you're underground in a boat. Cool. And you probably go to like a coffee shop in the cave, right? Maybe today they've done that. That was 25 years ago. I don't think that was, yeah, I just remember the cave. I remember the person rowing the boat for us. We were just stuck in this cave. Okay. Yeah, anyways, it was fun. It was a fun time. Okay. Well, so the,

the little bit of research that I've done about Bobatire, so Baba wasn't actually his name.

It's just, it's just a term of respect, of meaning that he's a wiser and elder, the respected.

And he was from the 11th century, and he's super mysterious.

Like they really do not know much about his life.

I'm like, so we're okay.

We're okay.

But his poems are also written in the Hamidani dialect.

So you'll hear that in this poem that we're going

to read right now. It has some of that like different dialect, right? And he also lived a very

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