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*Born: 2 October 1920 in Ardabil, in Khanate of Azarbaijan in Iran (former Persia)
*Education: MSc in Public Administration (South California, USA); Bachelor in Public Administration, Bachelor in Law, the Law School in the University of Tehran; Bachelor in Philosophy and Pedagogy in the Daneshsar-ye-Allee College of Tehran.
*Scholarship: Public Administration in Italy.

*Candidacy for Parliament from Ardabil (1980): 28,000 votes.
*Knowledge of Languages:Arabic,English,Turkish, Persian, Italian & Swedish
*Marriage: married with Ms. Vahebzadeh in 1949; she was the daughter of one of the most prominent and respected personality in Ardabil; Mr. Agha-Boeyuek Vahebzadeh was one of the most famous activists for the pro-democarcy movement and freedom.

*Total time as a Teacher: many years; 4 years in Ardabil; in the schools of Porandokht and Saadi; many years in Teharn; in Hadaf High school and Soraya school in Khayam Str. in downtown, and in the Abu-ReyHan High school.
*Total time as Mayor of Ardabil: 9 months (between the autumn in 1952 until August 1953.
*Total time as Deputy Director for the Ministry of Culture in Ardabil: 1 year and 6 months (1949-1950).
*Total time as Assistant Deputy Prime Minister in the Iran Ogaf's Organization (The Endowment&The Pilgrimage): 17 years (1960-1978).

Baba Safari was born on October 2, 1920 in a Mulsim family in the ancient city of Ardabil; his father Abdolazim was a hard working merchant, who had lost his properties and business after the emergence of the October Revolution in Russia while he was trading in many cities of that country such as Nizhni-Novogrorod, Hajji-Tarkhan and Baku. Before the October Revolution in 1917, the Azeri Muslim entrepreneurs maintained control over the real estate market, silk spinning, and some other fields despite the growing competition of the Armenians and Russians, who received preferential government treatment(Book: The Politicizing of Islam by Kemal H. Karpat, Oxford Uni.Press, 2001, pp. 288-289).
Abdolazim as a merchant suffered too much from those discriminations by Russians while he was working in Russia. Baku, where he worked and traded was a city, which grew from a small town of 15000 people in the mid-1850s to an industrial-finacial metropolis of more than 200,000 at the end of the century. The leaders of the October Revolution in 1917, proclaimed for defending of justice and establsing of a healthy society for all people, but the supporters of Tsar and also the Allied (Great Britain, France and the United States) occupied many main cities and provinces together with the assistance of White troops, who were against the Bolshelviks. Anyway, Abodolazim lost all his properties and wealth and managed to flee with his very old clothes to his city to Ardabil in Iranian Azerbaijan.

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Sergey Mironovich Kirov fought in the Russian Civil War until 1920. He and his friends in coordination with Josef Stalin, militarily and very brutally, in contrast to thier proclaimed principles in the October Revolution and respecting the soverignty of the independent countries, their over 70,000 soldiers attacked to the newly independent country of Azerbaijan;these criminals under the name of Revolution and Socialism, after causing many massacres in Azerbaijan, they burned many historical and cultural centres of Azerbaijan. In 1921, Mr. Kirov, because of his criminalities agaist humanity and killing of thousands of Azerbaijanis, became head of the Azerbaijan party organisation; the communists,later, changed the name of the anicent city of Azerbaijan, Ghanje to Kirovabad!!! Mr.Kirov's brutality and uncivilized behavour was known and as a matter of fact, loyally, he supported Joseph Stalin, and in 1926 he was rewarded with the leadership of the Leningrad party.His father was Miron Kostrikov; and Sergey Kostrikov had changed his name to Kirov.

Baba Safari as the mayor of Ardabil, many times criticized the inequality of wealth in Ardabil; he said in different times, one of the most jarring consequences of inequality in our city is that we are not capable of providing first-rate medical care to those people, who are working for us, but they are deprived from medical care; we are failing to make these opportunities available to many thousands of our people, who need our healps. In relation to the situation on the streets, he said, with our good plans and our good co-ordinations, all these streets in the city can be cleaned cleaned; he ordered, all complaints from people must be investigated and answered by the authorities of the city within the 24 hours.

The budget of the city had too much debts on that time, after hard works of Baba Safari reached to its surpluses. Many people are saying that, Baba Safari, himself, sometimes, was sweeping our streets; it is necessary to encourage people for working together for a clean city. He was an accountable mayor; and he was an honest man. Many people are saying, without any doubt,he was one of the most popular mayor of our history in the city of Ardabil.
Baba Safari shared a profound commitment to basic rights for all, no matter the poor people, or the middle-class people; for him rights to life and liberty, to opportunity, to a decent education, to a job are not for a specfic classes, these rights are for all people according to his religion.

It was in the time of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh,as he was the popular mayor of this city, and always he promoted the fairness and honesty. As an expert in the law and Islam, he believed in a free press eager to speak truth to power. He said, I am believeing that the politicians, who are not accountable and honest and are living in their big houses cannot tell us whom we can advantage for jobs and wealth or where we can make schools, hospitals. A a mayor of Ardabil, he wanted people to unite themselves for a better co-operation for the better works and for a better life for all; he said, we must join together in rejecting those who coarsen our values and want divide us for their own political purposes. He said: Remember people, ‘Disobedience to any vicious policies, to any tyranny, to any bad polictians, is obedience to God. The real Muslim must be good educated and must be awared to what's going in his or her environment.

In his more than 17 years works in the Iranian Endowment and the Pilgrimage Organization (Oghaf)(1960-1978), he achieved to many his goals in reforming of this institution, which was the second richest institute after the Iranian Oil Company.
A traditional source of financial support for all religious institutions has been the vaqf, a religious endowment by which land and other income-producing property is given in perpetuity for the maintenance of a shrine, mosque, madraseh, or charitable institution such as a hospital, library, or orphanage.
The Oghaf Orhanization of Iran was an institute within the Prime Minister's Office and its head was the deputy prime minister.

Baba Safari was as a senior assistant to the head of Oghaf in Iran ( as Assistant Deputy Prime Minister); he had very good knowledge of Arabic, English; he was an expert in the Islamic Laws. Under the Pahlavis, the government attempted to exercise control over the administration of vaqfs, especially those of the larger shrines. This was a source of conflict with the clergy, who perceived the government's efforts as lessening their influence and authority in traditional religious matters.
Mr. Baba Safari, who himself was a moderate religious expert and well respected by many of the religious leaders in many Islamic countries, managed the issues of this conflicts in accordance with the spirit of law and respect to Islam. He prevented the intensive interferences, but strongly, he emphasized on the rule of law in any issues with the administration of vaqfs. He tried to prevent a sharp declining in the number of vaqf bequests, but despite of his efforts, wealthy and pious Shias chose to give financial contributions directly to the leading ayatollahs in the form of zakat, or obligatory alms. The clergy in turn used the funds to administer their madrasehs and to institute various educational and charitable programs, which indirectly provided them with more influence in society.

His job as an Assistant to Deputy Prime Ministers (Azomoon, Ahmadi)in the Oghaf affairs in the Iranian Oghaf Organization (The Endowment & the Pilgrimage Organziation) gave him the real opportunities for serving to people of Iran for seventheen years.

He brought fresh and dynamic reforms to this old fashined organizarion; most importnatly, he prevented from all kinds of stealings, corruptions and any forms of fraud in this very strategic Endowment of Iran; this organizations was the second richest organization after the Iranian Oil Company on that time.
He brought very modern legislations for the piligrimages and their safty in the Saudi Arabia, syria and in Iraq.He created the peace of minds and comforts for all Sunnis and Shiite clerics of Iran.
The current Leaders of Islamic Republic of Iran enjoyed from his reforms and legislations in the era of shah; most of these religious leaders know that he was an expert in the Islamic laws.Baba Safari was one of the outstanding politician of Iranian, who was very proud of his Azarbaijani origin; his dialogues in the Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq, were very constructive for peaceful partcipation of Iranian pilgrims and their comforts.
Many representatives from the Islamic countries were searching for his plans in the adminstration of Oghaf; these plans were very successful and very interesting for other countries.
Baba Safari was a popular and accoutable expert in the Islamic laws; he was dealing all details of the pilgrimage and endowments with all representatives in other countries and also with those religious leadesr in Iran.

Baba Safari gave very strong emphasis on the correlation between the levels of Hygiene on the streets and the public health, therefore he worked for the fundamental changes in the city administration; his main challenge was to deliver a kind of results in his job a a mayor that his achievements work for all, not just for a privileged few. He said, Ardabil must respond to progress by preparing every man, woman, and child in this city to compete successfully in this new challenge.

His thinking and his works were for a better life in this city; he emphasized, we need commit ourselves as the humans in this part of world to excellence in education for administration; without any education, we will not be successful in our works in this city; we need also to invest the resources needed to reach our short-term or long-term goals. Each past generation of Ardabilis, from old time until now, have broadened different kinds of educational opportunities for our youth; in different times, different methods have been used.

As a teacher, as a writer, as a great historian, as a philosopher, as a lawyer, and as an expert in the islamic laws, as a Geographer, as an expert in the persian litrature and finally as a recognized and a compotent person in the science of sociology, Mr. Baba Safari was very accountable and a God-feared person. He was a responsible human, who was keenly involved in everything for doing positive services to people of his country, especially to those poor people, who desperately needed his knowledge and helps; Baba didn't care whatever his rank or position in the government was; he didn't care what some people, who are selfish are saying to him when he was driving with his old Volkswagen(Fullux)to the sothern parts of Tehran or the poor areas of Ardabil for visiting people; he felt himself as a responsible person and as a equal part of all humans for better serving with his highest energy for people, who have been deeply persecuted and need his assistance; Baba Safari was qualified in doing evry positive things; such as the pairing of shoes for guests, no matter children or adults; doing dialogues with many students; in many different aspects of politics, education, or econmoics. Baba Safari was a good partner to his wife, Mrs. Wahbzedeh; he was able to cook and to prepare dishes for his family, and also for his guests; and as a great mark of appreciation and affection was shown by Baba Safari when he invited some relatives, friends to his house by placing before them, dishes with many different foods and serving them different fruits. It was not the matter of foods and fruits, it was the thought put into it. Mr.Baba Safari was visiting his relatives and friends, whose economical conditions were not in a good condition; many of them were living in the poor areas. Baba Safari gave them many precious gifts and most important he relected his values that all humans must be respected, no matter, where they are living. Many children on that time; now they are in their 30s and 40s; are remembering those days, when Mr. Baba Safari and his wonderful wife, Mrs. Vahebzadeh, were visiting them; they gave them money and gifts. One of the most important issue on that time was that Mr. Baba Safari, in every opportunity was teaching to many children the correct ways of a productive thinking and also the way for distinguishing between wrong actions and right things. Mr. Baba Safari was respecting the other children like his own children; and specifically in very high quality; and many children loved him.
The name of Baba Safari, is always correlated to a name, which is resembling a man of God; this wonderful man was an accountable person. He was honest with everybody. Mr.Baba Safari was full of love and humanity to people; many people didn't understand, why this great personality of history of Iran and Azerbaijan, who once was the assistant to deputy prime ministers in Iran, in the Oghaf affairs, is pairing the shoes of children and guests, who are his guests at his home; and he is collecting the small pieces of breads, which are on the carpets or on the grouds; Baba Safari valued every single corn and every single pieces of bread. He was not happy if he was expericing many people are wasting many brerads in their homes or in many restaurants; he said, if you love God, what does it mean these massive wasting of God's blessings? He was a God-feared man.

Achievements:

1)Historical Books: 4 volumes: Ardabil-dar-Gozarghahe-Tarikh
2) The Comparative Calendar
3)A book in response to the books from Mr. Dashti (an athestic and blasphemic book; the 23 years) and also in response to Mr. Salaman Rushdi( the author of the book against Islam and Muslims; the Satanic Verse).
4)One Hundred One Books in One Book and One Hundred Two Books in 2 books
5) A book related to the geography of the Islamic countries.
6) More than 16 books about history, geography and sciology for the teaching to students in the schools throughout Iran; they were taught as the teaching books until 1978, the emergence of the Islamic Repbilic 7) A book for understanding of the real meaning of the verses of the holy book of Islam, Qu'ran.
7) There are millions of people, who learned his books related to history, geography and the science of society in their schools in the era of Mohammad Reza; all these people are remembering der co-author of these books, Baba Safari. He taught us to be proud of ourrselves and our achievements.
*Children: 3 sons; they have the high education (the two of his sons are living with their mother in Stockholm, Sweden ; one of his son is living and working in Tehran, Iran) and the only daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Safari, who is very kind and very talented girl, has her high education from Sweden; she is working in many countries of Europe.

* The great master of history of Ardabil, Baba Safari, passed away on July 14, 2003 at Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, after the short period of illness (kidney and heart).

Most Iranians are hunger for meaning and purpose in life. Many people in the Azarbaijan, including people of Ardabil, who have been deprived from a better life for a long time, are deeply concerned about the politics of deception and lies. The Politics of Meaning through respecting of the people's rights was the right politics; Baba Safari chosen this politics. He was an Iranian-Azarbaijani historian, who was really a right man for hopes. He really understood what people are desiring or waht they are valuing most. He realized, these so-called the valuing people, who want prospertity in this country, have really suffered years and years from the wrong policies by the wrong politicians. The legendary historian Baba Safari, whose books (about 16 teaching books): history, geography and sociology had been taught as the official teaching books in the schools in the time of shah, always had emphasized on good and productive works. It is what we as humans with the helps of the Almighty do after we make our decisions to implement and execute them that makes them very good decisions for all people of this country, but not only one of them.

He Was Like A Pearl With Its Warm Inner Glow

Mr. Safari was a great teacher. He was like a pearl with its warm inner glow . The issue of education had the great priorities for his works. Baba Safari believed that our teachers need also to be students. He said that this keeps them connected, empathetic. It keeps them aware. He without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is dangerous. the whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. We need to learn what we are thinking and how we are thinking.
Thinking is the essence of man's very being, and the tool by which the transient sorrows, the primitive forms of feeling, and the others, merely personal parts of existence can be mastered.

Mr. Baba Safari saw the issue of revolution more complicated than these simplistic views. One of the major religious institution in Iran is the shrine. There are more than 1,100 shrines that vary from crumbling sites associated with local saints to the imposing shrines of Imam Reza and his sister Fatima in Mashhad and Qom, respectively. These more famous shrines are huge complexes that include the mausoleums of the venerated Eighth Imam and his sister, tombs of former shahs, mosques, madrasehs, and libraries. Imam Reza's shrine is the largest and is considered to be the holiest. Mr. Baba Safari managed to work on all these difficult issues of these religious institutions and organizations like mosques, hoseyniehs and madarsehs.The shrine's endowments and gifts are the largest of all religious institutions in the country. Traditionally, free meals for as many as 1,000 people per day are provided at the shrine.
The Iranian Oghaf Organization is the second largest Institution after the Iranian oil Company; many religious and politicians want to contol the management of this organization because of its huge wealth.
Baba Safari preveneted any illegitime interventions from the evil forces, who wanted to do all their own profitable businesses under the umbrella of the religion or the government. This organization also provided different amount of wages, in every month, to those Sunnis & Shiite religious leaders in Iran, who co-operated with the government in the time of Mr.Manouchehr Azmoun and Mr. Ahmadi, who were the deputy prime ministers and the heads of this organizations.

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Rashid Behbudov (December 14, 1915 - June 19, 1988) was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He sang in Azerbaijani, Russian, Persian, Turkish and Armenian, among other languages.Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, he worked in Yerevan's Philharmonia and Opera House from 1938 to 1944. He moved to Azerbaijan SSR after Tofig Guliyev's invitation in 1945. He became popular when he played the lead role of Askar, the wealthy peddler, in a movie Arshin Mal Alan ("The Cloth Peddler") which was based on a 1913 musical comedy by Uzeyir Hajibeyov.Rashid's father, Majid Behbudlu was a well-known singer too. In 1959, he was named "People's Artist of the USSR".
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