Ashraf Gilani
Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini Gilani | |
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سید اشرفالدین حسینی گیلانی | |
Ashrafedin in his final years | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1870 Qazvin, Iran |
| Died | 1934 Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation | Poet, writer |
| Profession | Founder and editor of newspaper Nasim-e-Shomal |
Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini Gilani (Persian: سید اشرفالدین حسینی گیلانی) (1870–1934) was a combatant poet in Iran's constitutional revolution and the editor of the Nasim-e-Shomal (English: Northern Breeze ), a short-lived newspaper that used poems and satire to comment on the political and social situation of Iran at the time.