, mīrzā muḥammad ṣādiḳ adīb al-mamālik , Persian poet and journalist, was born at Kāzarān near Sulṭānābād (mod. Arāk) in 1860. On his father’s side he was directly descended from Mīrzā Abu ’l-Ḳāsim Ḳāʾimmaḳām Farāhānī, statesman and writer of the early 19th century, while his mother was a member of the same family. After his father’s death in 1874 the family was in serious financial difficulties, until in 1890 Mīrzā Ṣādiḳ took service with Amīr-i Niẓām Garrūsī, whom he accompanied to Tabriz, Kirmāns̲h̲āh and Tehran. During this period he acquired the titles Amīr al-S̲h̲uʿarāʾ (whence his t…