Baba Tahir

Baba Tahir (Persian: باباطاهر عریان‎) or Baba Taher Oryan Hamadani (Persian: باباطاهر عریان همدانی‎) was an 11th-century Persian poet from Hamadan, Iran. His poetry is written in the Hamadani dialect of the Persian language. According to L. P. Elwell-Sutton he probably wrote in the Hamadani dialect, adding: "Most traditional sources call it loosely Luri, while the name commonly applied from an early date to verses of this kind, Fahlaviyat, presumably implies that they were thought to be in a language related to the Middle Persian language. Rouben Abrahamian however found a close affinity with the dialect spoken at the present time by the Jews of Hamadan." According to The Cambridge History of Iran, Baba Tahir spoke a certain Persian dialect.