Bahar Shirvani's birth date has been put as 1831, 1835 and 1837. In
Tabriz, he served as the secretary of the French Consulate. There he was also assigned with the education of
Iraj Mirza. Bahar Shirvani died in 1883 or 1886. Some scholars considered him to have died at Mirza Mohammad Kazem Saburi's house in
Mashhad, while others considered him to have died in
Tehran or Tabriz.[1]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.