Rouben Abrahamian however found a close affinity with the dialect spoken at the present time by the Jews of Hamadan.

Legend tells that the poet, an illiterate woodcutter, attended lectures at a religious school, where he was not welcomed by his fellow-students.

Rahat al-sodur of Ravandi, whose work was completed 603/1206, describes a meeting between Baba Tahir and the Seljuq conqueror Tughril (pp. 98–99).

At the time when Baba Tahir lived in the 10th century, there were great changes occurring in the development and growth of literature and art.

Baba Tahir's poems are recited to the present day all over Iran accompanied by the setar, the three stringed lute.

[4] Attributed to him is a work by the name Kalemat-e Qesaar, a collection of nearly 400 aphorisms in Arabic, which has been the subject of commentaries, one allegedly by Ayn-al-Qozat Hamadani.