In memoriam Mohammad Ebrahim Abbasi
(Bahar, 1922-Tehran, 2007)

Mohammad Ebrahim Abbasi (Bahari), the first child of Mohammad Esmaeel and Soghra, was born in 1922 in Hamadan. He spent his childhood and youth in Kermanshah and in 1945, he married Khanomagha Bolhari. In 1951 he went to Khoramshahr to get a job and started working at the customs office of that city. Three years later, Mohammad Ebrahim came to Tehran along with his wife and two sons and settled in Amirieh in the center of Tehran.

His young ages in Kermanshah, 1941
His young ages in Kermanshah, 1941
With his wife and two sons, 1953
With his father and his son, Mehdi, 1954
In Tehran, 1951

While he was in charge of the distribution in Canada Frost and Doogh-e-Abali Company, he lead the workers for their rights and as a result he got fired. And just then he started working in Tehran Grand Bazaar. Soon he was reliable to everyone, something that lasted to his final days.
Mohammad Ebrahim has left four sons and two daughters (Mehdi, Hadi, Maryam, Monireh, Majid and Saeed). He was a kind father, proud of the success of his children and loved his ten grandchildren.

In Baba Taher Tomb in Hamadan, 1971
In his 60s.
In his 70s.

Everyone in the neighborhood (Dargahi Alley, Tehran) who looked out of the window at sunset; could see a tall, very thin man coming back from the mosque in his special outfit. Being suffered from Parkinson disease for a long time, in 1990 heart problem also came to him and never left him to his very last moments and finally in the early morning of the Eid-e Fitr; October 13, 2007 he passed away.

Mohammad Ebrahim Abbasi was a very simple man in both of his life and death. Someone who belonged to the past and great generation of men...
May his memory live forever.

At home in Dargahi Alley, 2006
Baghban Kala, countryside of Tehran, March 2006 (Norooz)

See also Farsi version of biography

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