Mohammad Taghi Bahar

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar , widely known as Malek o-Shoara and Malek o-Shoara Bahar (literally: the king of poets), is a renowned Iranian poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character.

In 1945, during Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's reign, Bahar served for a short period as the Minister of Culture and Education in the Cabinet of the then Prime Minister Ahmad Ghavam (aka Ghavam o-Saltaneh). He died on 22April, 1951 at his home in Tehran.