Heydar Babaya Salam

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Heydar Babaya Salam (Azerbaijani:Heydər Babaya Salam, Persian حيدر بابايه سلام) is the best known poetical work by Mohammad Hossein Shahriar (Shahriyar), a famous Iranian Azeri poet. Published in 1954, it is about Shahriyar's childhood and his memories of his village Khoshginab near Tabriz. Heydar Baba is the name of a mountain behind the village.

In Heydar Babaya Salam Sharyar shows a nostalgia for Azerbaijani-Iranian simple village life before modernisation.

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