Mohammadjafar Khan Gerashi (Persian: محمدجعفر خان گراشی), son of Rostam Khan Gerashi 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, etc., that published by Ahmad Eghtedari.

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Sheyda Gerashi
Gerashi, cover of Diwan of Sheyda
Born	Mohammadjafar Khan Gerashi (1879-12-03)3 December 1879 Gerash, Persia
Died	3 April 1920(1920-04-03) (aged 40) Sahray-ye Bagh, Persia
Resting place	Behind the Imam Husayn Shrine, Karbala, Iraq
Other names	Moghtader-ol-Mamalek
Writing career
Pen name	Sheyda
Notable works	Diwan of Poems

See also

• List of Persian poets and authors
• Gerash

References

• The Diwan of Sheyda Gerashi, published by Ahmad Eghtedari in Hamsayeh publications, in 1997. ISBN 964-6199-20-8
• Website of Gerash ICOMOS.