Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar

Shahriar
Shahriar in his old years
Born	1906 Tabriz, Iran
Died	September 18, 1988(1988-09-18) (aged 82) Tehran, Iran (Buried in Maqbaratoshoara)
Occupation	Iranian Poet
Spouse(s)	Azizeh Abde-Khaleghi (1947–1953)
Children	Shahrzad Hadi Maryam

Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi (Persian: سید محمدحسین بهجت تبریزی‎‎) (1906 – September 18, 1988), mainly known by his pen name, Shahriar (ⁱ/ʃæhrɪɒr/), was a notable Iranian poet of Azerbaijani descend, who wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian. His most important work Heydar Babaya Salam is considered to be the pinnacle in Azerbaijani literature which gained great popularity in the Turkic world and was translated to more than 30 languages.

Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, was one of the first Azeris of Iran to write a significant collection of poetry in the Azeri Turkish language. Born in 1906 in a village near Tabriz, one of the major cities in Iranian Azerbaijan, he received his elementary education, including the Divan of Hafez, under his father's supervision. Shahriar’s first formal education was at the Motahari (former Mansoor High School) Secondary School in Tabriz. He subsequently studied at the Dar-ol-Fonoun (former higher education school) in Tehran. Although he studied medicine in college, he dropped out just before getting his diploma and went to Khorasan, where he found a job as a notary public and bank clerk. He returned to Tehran in 1935 and started working in the Agricultural Bank of Iran.