Sayyid Hassan Safavi
⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Sayyid Hassan Safavi (1934 - March 11, 2004) is my uncle and my mother's (i.e., Malekeh Agha Safavi's) oldest brother.
His father's name is Sayyid Ali Safavi. And his mother's name is Robabeh Sultan Ahan.
He has 6 siblins —
- Begum Agha Safavi
- Soghra Bagum Safavi
- Ashraf Al-Sadat Safavi
- Sayyid Hussein Safavi
- Sayyid Mehdi Safavi
- Malekeh Agha Safavi
He married Ashraf Akbari, and had 2 children, both sons —
- Sayyid Ali Safavi
- Sayyid Abbas Safavi
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Sayyid Hassan Safavi was my mother's (i.e., Malekeh Agha Safavi's) guardian for much of her youth.
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I called him: Dāyee Hassan.
(Which basically means “Uncle Hassan” in the . Although “Dayee” means “maternal uncle”. There's a different word for “paternal uncle” — “amu”. So "dāyee" conveys a little more information than the English word "uncle".)
My brother's first-name — Hassan Robert Krempeaux's first-name — (i.e., “Hassan”) is named after Sayyid Hassan Safavi. According to my mother, it was my father's idea — i.e., it was Charles Robert Krempeaux's idea — to give my brother my Dāyee Hassan's name.