Mirza Abbas Khan Sheida

Mirza Abbas Khan Sheida, or Sheida-ye-Esfahani (1873 – 1949), was an Iranian sufi, poet and Journalist.

His father Mirza Es-hagh Dehkordi, was the governor-general of Shahre Kord and the province of Chahar Mahaal o Bakhtiari.

Sheida attended Sadr School with his cousin Ayatollah Rahim Arbab and finished his traditional studies in Fiqh, usul, Persian and Arabic literature, and philosophy under the supervision of scholars such as Jahangir Khan Ghashghaei and Ayatollah Akhond Kashi; he graduated as an Ayatollah, something that he never used for his future career.

Sheida published one of the first four newspapers in Iran, the Baladieh Esfahan.

He spent all of his inheritance and his income for his journals and weekly meeting of poems in city of Isfahan.