Mushfiq-i Kāẓimī, Murtaḍā - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Duvigneau, Julie
Leiden
Brill
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Sayyid Murtaḍā Mushfiq-i Kāẓimī is known for being the author of the first socially-concerned Iranian novel of the twentieth century, Tihrān-i makhūf ("Terrifying Tehran"). He was a journalist poet, and prose writer and later became a civil servant and an ambassador. His concern for Iranian society is exhibited throughout his writing. The two social issues that most excised him were the role of women in society and the arts. Born in Tehran in 1904 (one year after the famous writer, translator, and intellectual Sādiq Hidāyat; d. 1951),