Mirzadeh Eshghi
{{Short description|Iranian writer and poet}}
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| name = Mirzadeh Eshghi
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| birth_name = Mohammed Reza Kordestani
| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|12|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hamadan, Sublime State of Persia
| death_date = {{death date and age|1924|08|03|1894|12|11|df=y}}
| death_place = Tehran, Sublime State of Persia
| death_cause = Assassination;
Murdered by two unknown gunmen
| occupation = Political writer and poet
| nationality = Iranian
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Sayed Mohammad Reza Kordestani ({{langx|fa|سید محمدرضا کردستانی}}; December 11, 1894{{snd}}July 3, 1924) was an Iranian political writer and poet who used the pen name Mirzadeh Eshghi ({{langx|fa|میرزاده عشقی}}).
Biography
He was born in Hamadan, the son of Hajj Sayed Abolghasam Kordestani; he learned French in the Ecole d'Alliance, and moved to Istanbul for a while. He is particularly famous for writing the opera Rastakhiz Shahryaran (Resurrection of the kings), which was a reflection of his patriotic spirit.
After returning to Iran and spending time with his family in Tehran, he published newspapers in which he fiercely attacked the political system of Iran. He is remembered for writing six plays; his Noruz nameh is particularly famous. He also published a paper called Twentieth Century and predicted his early death repeatedly.{{cite book| last=Aryanpour|first=Yahya|title=From Saba To Nima: 150 Years History Of Persian Literature|year=1993|volume=2|page=364 |url=http://www.jeihoon.com/p-1671--1-2-.aspx|publisher=Zavvar Publications}}
Death
Eshghi was murdered by two unknown gunmen in his house in Tehran.{{cite journal|last=Zabih|first=Sepehr|title=Aspects of Terrorism in Iran|journal=Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|date=September 1982|volume=463 |series=International Terrorism|pages=84–94|jstor=1043613|publisher=Sage Publications|doi=10.1177/0002716282463001007}}{{cite book|last=Aryanpour|first=Yahya|title=From Saba To Nima: 150 Years History Of Persian Literature|year=1993|volume=2|pages=364–365 |url=http://www.jeihoon.com/p-1671--1-2-.aspx|publisher=Zavvar Publications}} He was buried in Ibn Babawayh Cemetery in Shahr-e Ray, near Tehran.[http://inlinethumb12.webshots.com/28939/2987981240061594669S600x600Q85.jpg Photograph of Eshghi's gravestone] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911080120/http://inlinethumb12.webshots.com/28939/2987981240061594669S600x600Q85.jpg |date=September 11, 2008 }}
Works
;Plays
- Operay-e-Rastakhiz-e-Mehr-e-Yaran (Written in Istanbul)
- Kafan-e-Siah or Black Shroud (Written in Tehran)
- Resurrected Iranian Kings (Written in Istanbul)
References
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Category:20th-century Persian-language poets
Category:People of the Persian Constitutional Revolution
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