Sunday, August 3, 2025
"It is from us what befalls us"
Mohammad Taqi Bahar (1884–1951), “It is from us what befalls us [(Az mast keh bar mast)],” as trans. Abbas Amanant in Iran: a modern history (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), chap. 6, p. . Amanat cites Mohammad Taqi Bahar Malek al-Sho‘ara, Divan-e Ash’ar, ed. M. Bahar, 5th ed. (Tehran: Entesharat Tus, 1368/1984) 1:261–62. I was put onto this by the Eli Lake podcast "Restless nation: the making of modern Iran (Part 1)," Breaking history. Beautiful poem.
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