Maqbaratoshoara

Maqbaratoshoara is a famous graveyard belonging to classical and contemporary poets, mystics and other notable people, located in the Surkhab district of Tabriz in Iran. It was built by Tahmaseb Dolatshahi in the mid-1970s while he was the Secretary of Arts and Cultures of East Azarbaijan.
Seqat-ol-Eslam Tabrizi is also buried in Maqbaratoshoara. He was a great nationalist who lived in Tabriz, Iran, during the Constitutional Revolution and was a reformist Shia cleric. He was hanged by Russian troops with 12 other nationalists in Bagh-e Shomal at the age of 50 during Russian Invasion of Tabriz, 1911.

Since a long time ago, Tabriz quarters and alleys have been a place and a dwelling for God devotee and famous poets and doubtlessly Tabriz has a special station for placing famous Gnostics and poets in its heart. Although some of them haven’t been from Tabriz or Azerbaijan extraction, but in any case anyone has a transit to tabriz for a reason and they have been fascinated by Tabriz by lapse of time and settled in Tabriz and buried in Tabriz according to their will. Sorkhab alley has had muchworth and value among people for connection to famous poets as living and even burying in this famous alley were counted wish of many great ones.
Maghbaratol shoara or poets tomb hasn’t been mentioned before eighth century.One should tell seemingly Sorkhab Maghbaratol shoara’s name has been mentioned in history and biography books after burying famous poets of sixth century like Khaghani and Zahir and poets who have been buried after them and it has achieved fame by and by.

Dead poets in Tabriz Maghbaratol shoara consist of:
Asadi Toosi, Gatran Tabrizi, Mojir Al Din Beilmagani, Khagani Shervani, Zahir Ed Din Faryabi, Shahpoor Neishaboori, Shams Al Din Sejasi, Zolfagar Shervani, Khajeh Homame Tabrizi, Maghrebi Tabrizi, Mani Shirazi, Shakibi Tabrizi and Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabriz “Shahryar”.
Shahryar, the son of Aga Seyyed Esmaail Musavi known as Haj Mir Aga Khoshkanabi, was born in Bazarche (small market) Mirza Nasrollah Tabriz located in Chaikenar in 1907. In 1328 A.H. when Tabriz was expectant for bloody events of constitution events, his father transferred him to Gish Goorshag and Khoshkanab villages. Ostad’s childhood passed in bosom of nature so that the poem of Heidar Baba is generated of those memories. His father restored him to Tabriz for continuing his studies in 1331A.H. and he began learning the rudiments of Arab literature by his father and he entered Mottahede school for learning new principles in 1332. He composed his first poem in this very year and then he engaged in learning French language and theologies. He didn’t withhold learning calligraphy, too (so that) the Qoran’s inscription is the result of this experiment, later on. When he was thirteen, his poems were published under a pseudonym, Behjat, in Adab magazine. He traveled to Tehran for the first time in 1920 and in 1921 Logman Al Molk, surgeon, engaged him in education in Darul-Fonun. Shahryar didn’t like Behjat as his pseudonym in Tehran and after prayers and having sortes with Hafez, he chose Shahryar as his pen name.
At the beginning he entered Tehran, he got familiar with Ostad Abol Hassan Saba and he learned playing the sitar and drilling Iranian musical instruments from Ostad. He studied theologies simultaneous with his education in Darul-Fonun. He attended in lesson’s assembly of Shahid(martyr) Seyyed Hassan Moddarres. He entered medicine school in 1924 and this time is beginning of his sensational and full of ups and downs life. In 1934, when Shahryar was in Khorasan, his father, Haj Mir Aga Khoshkanabi passed away. Then he came back Tehran in 1935 and from then on his fame exceeded borders. Shahryar composed Azari and Persian poems very skillfully and he created his own timeless work, Heidar Babia Salam in 1950-1951 and he left it as a memorial for ever. His mother bade farewell to the world in 1952. He came to Tabriz in 1953 and he got married to one of his relative, by the name of Mrs. Azize Aamid Khalegi and they had three children, Shahrzad, Maryam, and Hadi. About 1957s, he began writing Qoran with legible Naskh handwriting and he finished third of it. During his residence in Tabriz, he succeeded in creating his worthwhile work, Sahandie. Again he traveled to Tehran in 1971 and he has been honored a lot but he was bereaved again in 1975 because of his wife death. He passed away in 1988 after being sick for time and he was buried in Maghbaratol shoara.

Contemporary dead greats in Maghbaratol shoara :
Dr. Mahdi Roshan Zamir poet, writer and professor, Dr. Mohammad Padideh poet and professor, Javad Azar poet, Ostad Mirza Taher Khoshnevis Tabrizi calligrapher and scribe of Quran, Mohammad Malmasi poet, Seyyed yousef Najmi poet.

Dead notables in Tabriz Sorkhab, Maghbaratol shoara:
Praised mausoleum of Seyyed Hamzeh who is descended from chivalrous Imam Mousa Kazem peace be upon him as a sixteen grandchild, Mirza Jesus Farahani, Baba Hassan, Baba Mazidand Segatol eslam.
Segatol eslam is one of Tabriz great clergies in 13th and the early 14th centuries A.H.He was leader and he had skill in astronomy, mathematics, history, speech and metaphysics and literature. He attended religious jurisprudence and principles classes in holy places which were taught by Fazel Ardakani, Sheikh Zeinal Abedin Mazandarani and Haj Sheikh Ali Yazdi and took advantage of them. In 1929, he came back Tabriz and he leaded clergies and he had efficient presence in the course of constitution. During Russia influence and interference in Tabriz, he opposed them and because he refused to undertake their interference and influence at all and didn’t authorize and confirm occupation of Tabriz by them, he and a few other persons were hanged at the 10th day of Moharram , ashoora, in1911 in Tabriz parade ground which is called Daneshsars now by Russian functionary’s decree and his body was buried in south-eastern side of mausoleum of Seyyed Hamzeh.