Bakhtiyar Mahmud oghlu Vahabzadeh, or simply Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, was an Azerbaijani poet, dramatist, lyricist, translator, professor, and politician. He is often regarded as one of the greatest contemporary poets of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Vagif Mustafazadeh, also known as Vaqif Mustafa-Zadeh, was a Soviet-Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer, acclaimed for fusing jazz and the traditional Azerbaijani folk music known as mugham. According to many world famous jazz musicians, Mustafazadeh is one of the pioneers and "the architect of jazz in Azerbaijan".
Sattar Bahlulzade was an Azerbaijani painter, best known for his landscape paintings depicting the nature of Azerbaijan. He is considered to be the founder of Azerbaijani Impressionism.
Turks in Azerbaijan, or Turkish Azerbaijanis, refers to ethnic Turkish people who live in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The community is largely made of Ottoman Turkish descendants who have lived in Azerbaijan for centuries, as well as the Turkish Meskhetian community which arrived in large numbers during Soviet rule. More recently, there has been Turkish migration from the Republic of Turkey, as well as from other post-Ottoman modern nation-states and from the Turkish diaspora.
Silent House is Orhan Pamuk's second novel published in 1983 after Cevdet Bey and His Sons. The novel tells the story of a week in which three siblings go to visit their grandmother in Cennethisar, a small town near Istanbul. The book has received positive retrospective reviews from critics.
Vidadi Narimanbekov was a painter, Honored Art Worker and People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Azerbaijani art is the art created by Azerbaijanis. They have created rich and distinctive art, a major part of which is applied art items. This form of art rooted in antiquity, is represented by a wide range of handicrafts, such as chasing (metalworking), jewellery-making, engraving, carving wood, stone and bone, carpet-making, lacing, pattern weaving and printing, and knitting and embroidery. Each of these decorative arts is evidence of the culture and the abilities of the Azerbaijan nation, and are very popular there. Many interesting facts pertaining to the development of arts and crafts in Azerbaijan were reported by merchants, travellers and diplomats who visited these places at different times.
Naser Manzuri is an Iranian novelist and linguist.
Hamid Mammadtaghi oglu Arasly was an Azerbaijani literary critic, Doctor of Sciences in Philology, and an academic at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is acknowledged as one of the most prominent literary critics and philologists of Azerbaijan.
Oruç Aruoba, was a Turkish writer, poet, and philosopher.
Kamil Ali Abbas oglu Khanlarov was a Soviet-Azerbaijani painter. He had received the honorary titles of the Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1964, and the People's Artist of Azerbaijan in 1992.
Şehzade Mehmed Cemaleddin Efendi was an Ottoman prince, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Şevket and the grandson of Sultan Abdulaziz.
Narimanbeyovs is Azerbaijani Bey family from Karabakh, Shusha.
The Turkish High Sculptors Society was founded on 22 April 1948.
The Hünername is an illustrated manuscript prepared in the late 16th century at the Ottoman court and preserved since then in Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. It contains the history of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire and particularly that of Suleiman the Magnificent. Bound in two volumes and illustrated with 89 double-page miniatures, it is one of the most famous Ottoman manuscripts.
Calligraphy in Azerbaijani culture is the role played by calligraphy in Azerbaijani literature and visual arts. In the Middle Ages, various examples of calligraphy were used in the writing of Azerbaijani manuscripts, and scientific works were written in the naskh line. In the 19th century, the works "Inshai-Mirza Kazim", "Majmaul-khosh Khatih" by Abdulqani Khalisagarizade Nukhavi and "Khatti-taliq va nastalig" by Abdussalam Akhundzadeh were written. Although calligraphy declined in Azerbaijan during the Soviet era, it is still used in modern times.
The Tomb of Shaykh Zahed Gilani or Sheikhanvar is a historical mausoleum in Lahijan, Iran. It dates back to the Safavid era. This mausoleum is the purported burial place of Zahed Gilani, a 13th-century Sufi mystic and the forefather of the Zahediyeh and Safaviyya Sufi orders, which would eventually evolve into the religion of the Safavid Empire. The mausoleum is the 824th national monument of Iran.
Mehri and Vafa is one of the first works written in Azerbaijani language, written by Ummi Isa. The language of the poem is distinguished by its simplicity and comprehensibility, as it is written in a folkloric, colloquial language. Service to the poem "Book of Dede Korkut" and "Dastani-Ahmed Harami" "Mehri va Vafa" is written in a simpler language and is a development form for the modern reader to understand. The language of the poem is dominated by words of Turkish origin. Its grammatical structures differ only slightly from modern Azerbaijani.
Ummi Isa was the author of one of the earliest works written in Azerbaijani Turkish, the first narrative "Mehri and Vafa" in Turkic literature. According to the opinions of some researchers, Ummi Isa is considered the first poet to write in Azerbaijani Turkish.
Rebellion of the false Ismail Mirza or Rebellion of the false Shah Ismail - also known as the False Ismail Mirza uprising, began in 1578 in the regions of Marash and Bozok by a person who proclaimed himself as II Shah Ismail against Ottoman rule. After the death of Safavid ruler II Shah Ismail, pseudo-Shah Ismails emerged not only within the Safavid territories but also in the Marash and Central Anatolian regions that came under the Ottoman Empire.
