Sheyda Gerashi

Mohammadjaafar Khan Gerashi (Persian: محمدجعفر خان گراشی‎‎), son of Haj Rustam Khan Gerashi (Sarhang) and grandson of Fathali Khan Gerashi, known as Moghtader ol-Mamalek (Persian: مقتدرالممالک‎‎) and better known as his pen-name Sheyda (Persian: شیدا‎‎), was a Persian Poet and Panegyrist. He was born in Gerash, Fars, Iran on 3 December 1879, and on 3 April 1920 in a local war in Sahray-ye Bagh, was killed. From him remains a Diwan contains the lyrics, quatrains, odes, dirges and etc., that published by Prof. Ahmad Eghtedari.