Heydar Babaya Salam
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Heydar Babaya Salam (Azerbaijani:Heydər Babaya Salam, Persian حيدر بابايه سلام) is the best known poetical work by Mohammad Hossein Shahriar (Shahriyar), a famous Iranian Azeri poet. Published in 1954, it is about Shahriyar's childhood and his memories of his village Khoshginab near Tabriz. Heydar Baba is the name of a mountain behind the village.
In Heydar Babaya Salam Sharyar shows a nostalgia for Azerbaijani-Iranian simple village life before modernisation.
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- English and Turkish Translation of Heydar Babaya Salam (University of Michigan)
- Audio file (mp3) of Heydar Babaya Salam
- Salam bih Haydar Baba and Salam bé Heydar Baba: in Azerbaijani, with Persian translation by Bahman Fursi (1993) ISBN 0-9518042-7-8 - See: Copac library catalogue
- English translation