Hasan Nahavandi
Biography
Hasan Nahavandi (fl. 19th century), son of Muhammad. A teacher and poet with nom de plume Hasan. Having been raised in Nahavand, he stayed in Najaf, Karbala’, and Isfahan for a while, but having completed his studies, he returned to his hometown. In his early years of studying, he learned from the author of Safinat al-Mahmud, prosody, astrolabe, theology, and commentaries on the qasidas by Anwari and Khaqani. Later, he became well-versed in principles of jurisprudence, prosody, astronomy, peripatetic and illuminationist philosophies, and wrote an elegant Shikasta hand. He engaged himself in teaching upon his return. He was also a skillful poet and his Divan runs to 7,000 couplets.
Asar-afarinan (2/ 268); Farhang-i Sukhanvaran (260).
