Taqi Rafat

{{Short description|Iranian poet (1989–1920)}}{{Infobox person

| honorific_prefix = Mirza

| name = Taghi Khan Raf'at

| image = Mirzə Tağı xan Rafət.jpg

| native_name = میرزا تقی‌خان رفعت

| native_name_lang = fa

| birth_date = c. 1989

| birth_place = Tabriz, Iran

| death_date = 1920

| occupation = Poet, Journalist, Dramatist

| father = Agha Mohammad Tabrizi

}}

Mirza Taghi Khan Raf'at ({{langx|fa|میرزا تقی خان رفعت}}; {{c.|1989–1920}}) was the son of Agha Mohammad Tabrizi.{{cite web | script-title=fa:تقی رفعت | work=tabrizinfo.com | url=http://www.tabrizinfo.com/tabriz/mashahir/rafaat.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041023032541/http://tabrizinfo.com/tabriz/mashahir/rafaat.htm | url-status=usurped | archive-date=October 23, 2004 | accessdate=13 January 2011 | language=Persian}} He was educated in Istanbul and during World War I returned to Tabriz to teach French in high school. He was a modernist poet who wrote in Turkish and French as well as Persian. Politically, he was a follower of Mohammad Khiabani, and edited the latter's newspaper, Tajaddod ("Modernity"), an organ of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, as well as the magazine Azadistan. When Khiabani's movement was violently crushed, Rafat committed suicide in a small village near Tabriz.

His arguments with Malek-osh-Sho'arā Bahār, a traditionalist poet are famous. he was a reformist with a hot tongue who criticized the old ways of literature in Iran and was pushing for reforms in both form and content in order to revolutionize the core of Persian Literature, especially in poetry. [http://toosfoundation.com/category/resources-iranian-poets/ Resources - Iranian Poets]. Toos Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016