Fovjul-fusaha is a literary council in Azerbaijan.
Fovjul-fusaha is a literary council in Azerbaijan.
In the mid-1840s and 1850s a literary council named Fovjul-fusaha (Group of Orators) was founded in Lankaran. Mirza Ismail Gasir, a famous poet and teacher, led this council. Various professionals participated in this council. The main members of the Fovjul-fusaha were Molla Alakbar Ajiz, Mirza Isa Khayali and Huseyngulu Shuris. They read the works of the classics and wrote imitative poems. [1]
Abbas Mirza was a Qajar crown prince of Persia. He developed a reputation as a military commander during the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813 and the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828, as well as through the Ottoman-Persian War of 1821-1823. He is furthermore noted as an early modernizer of Persia's armed forces and institutions, and for his death before his father, Fath Ali Shah. Abbas was an intelligent prince, possessed some literary taste, and is noteworthy on account of the comparative simplicity of his life.
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Mirza Fatali Akhundov, also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh, was a celebrated Iranian Azerbaijani author, playwright, ultra-nationalist, philosopher, and founder of Azerbaijani modern literary criticism, "who acquired fame primarily as the writer of European-inspired plays in the Azeri Turkic language". Akhundzade singlehandedly opened a new stage of development of Azerbaijani literature. He was also the founder of materialism and atheism movement in the Republic of Azerbaijan and one of forerunners of modern Iranian nationalism. He wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian and Russian.
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Mirza Karim oglu Mikayilov, known as Mirza Khazar, was an eminent Azerbaijani author, political analyst, anchorman, radio journalist, publisher, and translator. Mirza Khazar was a Mountain Jew. He also was known as Mirza Michaeli. Mirza Khazar died on January 31, 2020 in Germany.
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The Tarikh-e Qarabagh is a book written by Mirza Jamal Javanshir sometime after 1847 about the history of the Qarabagh (Karabakh) region. Written in Persian, the literary language of the Muslims in the Caucasus, it was composed on the order of the then Russian Viceroy in the Caucasus, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov. The book deals with the history of the Karabakh region from the coming of the Arabs through the Muslim conquest of Iran in the 7th century, up to the Imperial Russian conquest through the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813.