Tabib Isfahani

Tabib Isfahani, Mirza ‘Abd al-Baqi Musawi (d. 1754/1757), son of Mirza Muhammad Rahim Hakimbashi. A poet and physician from the Musawi Sayyids of Isfahan. His ancestors departed Fars for Isfahan under the Safavid Shah ‘Abbas I and settled there. His father was the court physician of the Safavid Shah Sultan Husayn and he was the court physician and boon companion of the Afsharid Nadir Shah. He became the highest administrative official of Isfahan after the death of Nadir Shah, but after a while, vested the office with his brother, Mirza ‘Abd al-Wahhab, and associated with the poets and litterateurs of the city, e.g. Hatif, ‘Ashiq, Adhar, Mushtaq, and Sahba. He composed elegant ghazals. His works include his Divan, including qasida, ghazals, qit’a, quatrains, and the mathnawi of Mahmud u Ayaz, running to 3,000 couplets.

Asar-afarinan (4, 102). 

Tabib Isfahani, Nasir al-Din, Mirza Nasir, Muhammad Nasir Shirazi (d. 1777), son of Mirza ‘Abd Allah. A poet and physician hailing from Jahrum. He received his education in Isfahan, hence his appellation Isfahani. Owing to his erudition in different disciplines, he became well-known as Nasir al-Din Thani and Nasir al-Din Muhammad Thani (lit. Nasir al-Din, the Second, i.e. second to Khwaja Nasir al-Din Tusi in terms of erudition). He was the great grandfather of Fursat Shirazi and the court physician and boon companion of the Zand Karim Khan. He prepared the plan of the Wakil Mosque and calculated its orientation to Mecca. His works include Asas al-Sihha, in Arabic on medicine; Jam-i Gitinamay, in Persian on philosophy; Hall al-Taqwim, in Persian on astronomy; Divan of poetry; the Mathnawi of Pir u Javan, also well-known as Bahar u Khazan; his most well-known work is Bahariyya.

Asar-i ‘Ajam (105-107); Divist Sukhanvar (216-217).