Rahi Mo’ayyeri

Mohammad Hassan Rahi Moayyeri was born in 1909 in Tehran. Literature, arts, and music were always present in his home. He became familiar with painting and music as a child, began to write poetry when he was seventeen years old, and chose Rahi as his pen name. Rahi had studied the works of all the great masters of Persian literature, but was especially fond of Saadi, whose influence is readily visible in Rahi’s poetry. In addition to qazals, he also wrote some masnavis.