Afsar Bakhtiyari

Afsar-i Bakhtiyari, Darab Khan (1900-1971), a Bakhtiyari poet who composed poetry in Bakhtiyari Luri. His most famous pieces of poetry include Khuda'iya; 'Amruya; and Humayla: a poetical debate of a young Lur man with a young woman from the city. He was born in Chughakhur, Bakhtiyari. His father, Aslan Ahmad Khusravi was one of the notables of the tribe of Ahamd Khusravi (Haft Lang-i Bakhtiyari) and his mother, Bibi Gawhar, was Husayn Quli Khan Ilkhani's daughter. He began composing elegant poems at the age of 30 in the Bakhtiyari dialect of Luri came to be known as the father of Bakhtiyari poetry. He settled in Isfahan in 1941 and died there in 1971 and was buried at the Mir Mausoleum (Tikyih), in Takht-i Fulad. He composed mystical, lyrical, poetry in different genres, e.g. qasida, ghazal, and qit'a. His poetical works have been published many times and they have been well received the following lines are by him:

She entered, looked at me, and went away,

She did nothing but added to my sorrows and went away.

My imagination, I, and sorrow were preoccupied with her,

How did she regard the unaware, robbed them of their hearts and went away.

Asar-afarinan (1, 272).