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COLLECTION Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 99

The Stephen Blum Collection of Music from Iranian Khorāsān at Harvard University: Original Ethnographic Sound Recordings

Heidari Digital

Overview

Heidari is a naqqāl from Tehran [family’s residence in Khorāsān, Mowlāvi, behind Bāgh-e Ferdows], who has been residing for the past three years in Mashhad and has taken a temporary wife. He is 62 years of age, and a member of Nimatollāhi order. He has been active as a naqqāl for twenty-six years, and claims to have studied for twelve years under Ostād ‘Asdollāh Yazdi. He uses a manuscript of the Shāhnāmah in the possession of his family “for seven generations.”