Bābā Ṭāhir (ʿUryān) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Baldick, Julian
Leiden
Brill
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Bābā Ṭāhir ʿUryān ("the Naked") was a legendary or semi-legendary mystic and poet of central-western Iran, usually dated to the fourth/tenth or fifth/eleventh century. Associated with him in that part of Iran are two tombs, one at Hamadhān and one at Khurramābād, the capital of the province of Luristan, where he is much venerated. The tomb at Hamadhān was mentioned in 740/1340 and was described in 1922, before it was rebuilt. It was a low brick building, with a nearby structure consisting of a room