Hazīn Lāhījī , is the pen-name of Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb ibn Abd Āllah, also known as Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb Hazin Lāhiji, Mohammad ibn Abi Tāleb Gilāni and Sheikh Mohammad Ali Hazin Lāhiji. He was an Iranian poet and scholar, born into an eminent family in Esfahan. His ancestors were scholars and landowners from Gilān (see Lāhijān

Lahijan

Lahijan is a city in and the capital of Lahijan County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 71,871, in 21,518 families....

). In 1734 he emigrated to India where he contributed to the Persianization of the ruling élites. He regarded the Persian of the Indian writers with much contempt. Hazin Lāhiji is considered to be one of the most prominent scholars of the Safavid era whose knowledge extended over the theological learning of his time as well as Natural Science

Natural science

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, a fact testified by his extant writings.

Further reading

• Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb Hazin Lāhiji, Rasā'el-e Hazin Lāhiji (رسائل حزین لاهیجی — Treatises of Hazin Lāhiji), edited by Ali 'Owjabi, Nāser Bāqeri Bidhendi, Eskandar Esfandiāri and Abdolhossein Mahdavi, 340 p. (Mirās Maktoob Publishing House, Tehran
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  Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
  
  , 1998). ISBN 964-90733-3-7
• Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb Hazin Lāhiji, Fat'h-os-Sobol (فتح السبل — Introduction to Modi Operandi), edited by Nāser Bāqeri Bidhendi, 217 p. (Mirās Maktoob Publishing House, Tehran, 1996).