Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī

Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī’s poem Taj va bayraq (1935; Crown and Banner) and Mirzo Tursunzade’s Hasani arobakash (1954; Hasan the Cart Driver) responded to the changes of the Soviet era. The latter’s lyric cycle Sadoyi Osiyo (1956; The Voice of Asia) won major communist awards. A…

Of these, the gifted poet Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī (died 1957) is their most important representative.