Ḥarīf Jandaqī, Mīrzā Sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan, the son of Mīrzā Sayyid ʿAlī, was a Persian poet of the 13th/19th century. His pen name (takhalluṣ) was Ḥarīf. He was born into a family of Ṭabāṭabāʾī sayyids in Jandaq, a town in the Khur and Biyābānak district in the province of Iṣfahān. During his early youth, Ḥarīf travelled to Tehran and then to cities in Ādharbāyjān. In 1209/1794, at the beginning of the reign of Āghā Muḥammad Khān (q.v., r. 1204–1211/1789–1797), Ḥarīf moved to the city of Khūy where he became part of a literary cir…