Aref Qazvini — Encyclopaedia Iranica

Encyclopaedia Iranica entry 'Aref Qazvini' by Jalal Matini; used for entity facts. It recounts his schooling at Qazvin and his father's forcing him to learn rawda-khwani, his singing at Mozaffar al-Din Shah's court, his constitutionalist support and Istanbul exile, and his death on 1 Bahman 1312 (21 January 1934) with burial in the courtyard of the Avicenna mausoleum at Hamadan.