Ali-Naqi Vaziri

Ali-Naqi Vaziri (Persian: علی نقی وزیری; 1 October 1886 in Tehran – 9 September 1979), also transcribed as Ali Naghi Vaziri, was a composer, thinker, and celebrated player of the tar. He is considered a revolutionary icon in the history of 20th-century Persian music. Ali-Naqi Vaziri was born on 1 October 1886, in Tehran, Qajar Iran. He was one of the seven children of Musa Khan Vaziri (a prominent official in the Persian Cossack Brigade) and Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi, a notable Iranian writer, satirist, and a pioneering figure in the women's movement of Iran; her book Ma'ayeb al-Rejal (Failings of Men, also translated as Vices of Men) is considered by some as the first declaration of women's rights in the modern history of Iran.