Taher Sabahi
Seyed Taher Sabahi is an Iranian-born art dealer, journalist, author and lecturer born in Tehran.
Besides being a carpet dealer in Turin since 1961, in 1993 Taher Sabahi founded the quarterly magazine Ghereh, International Carpet & Textile Review, a quarterly magazine published in English and Italian. Since then he has been the editor of the magazine, and he has also been active in the publishing world, writing many books on carpets.
Life
Born in Tehran to an Iranian Azerbaijan family, Sabahi moved to Rome in September 1961. Sabahi attended medical school in the University of Bologna's Faculty of Pharmacy.From December 2024 he was awarded by the title of “Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic”.