- Source: Heydar Babaya Salam
Heydar Babaya Salam (Azerbaijani: حیدربابایه سلام) is an Azerbaijani poetical work by Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, a famous Iranian Azerbaijani poet. Published in 1954 in Tabriz, it is about Shahriar's childhood and his memories of his village Khoshgenab near Tabriz. Heydar Baba is the name of a mountain overlooking the village.
It is considered to be a pinnacle of Azerbaijani literature and gained popularity in the Turkic-speaking world. It was translated into more than 30 languages.
In Heydar Babaya Salam Shahriar narrates a nostalgia from his childhood in a village in Iranian Azerbaijan.
In describing Heydar Baba, Shahryar uses the Azeri word regime toward Iranian Azerbaijanis. Here, in every part of Azerbaijan, a Heydar Baba rises up and becomes a gigantic wall that supports and protects Azerbaijan against its foes.
Sources
External links
English and Turkish Translation of Heydar Babaya Salam (University of Michigan)
Audio file (mp3) of Heydar Babaya Salam
Salam bih Haydar Baba and Salam bé Heydar Baba: in Azerbaijani, with Persian translation by Bahman Fursi (1993) ISBN 0-9518042-7-8 - See: Copac library catalogue
English translation
Şəhriyar - Heydər Babaya salam-1 (audio) (in Azerbaijani)
Further reading
Notghi, Hamid; Sabri-Tabrizi, Gholam-Reza (1994). "Hail to Heydarbaba: A Comparative View of Popular Turkish & Classical Persian Poetical Languages". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 21 (2): 240–251. doi:10.1080/13530199408705603. JSTOR 195476 – via JSTOR.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Heydar Babaya Salam
- Heydar
- Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar
- Azerbaijan (Iran)
- Hossein Monzavi
- Azerbaijani language
- Iranian Azerbaijanis
- Qaysh Qur Shaq
- Azerbaijani literature
- Deaths in September 1988
