Mirza Fatolah Qudsi Kermani

(Foad Kermani) [1851-1938] (1268 AH – 1358 AH / 1317 SH)

Qodsī Kermānī—poet, vocalist, and player of the tār—was one of the leaders of the community of the People of the Bayān (the Azali Babis). Writing under the pen name “Foād,” he was the son of Solṭān-ʿAlī, born in Kerman, and lived to nearly ninety years of age. However, within the context of the Babis’ clandestine mode of existence, Foād has been introduced and recognized in public sources as a mystically inclined poet and a Shiʿi believer.