Language and literature

• Literary workThe Book of Dede KorkutThe heroic epic of the Oghuz Turks — a shared Turkic monument made up of separate tales, inscribed by UNESCO in 2018 on a joint nomination by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Türkiye.Azerbaijan
• Literary workEpic of KoroghluThe epic of a folk hero who rises against tyranny, told across the Turkic world from Azerbaijan to Central Asia.Azerbaijan
• Literary workNizami's KhamsaNizami Ganjavi's masterpiece of five long poems (12th century), a summit of Eastern poetry.Azerbaijan
• Literary workFuzuli's Leyli and MajnunMuhammad Fuzuli's love poem written in Azerbaijani in 1536.Azerbaijan
• Literary workAkinchi newspaperThe first newspaper in Azerbaijani, published in Baku on 22 July 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi.Azerbaijan
• Literary workMolla Nasraddin magazineA satirical magazine published from 1906 to 1931, famous across the Muslim East for its cartoons.Azerbaijan
• Literary workGreetings to HeydarbabaShahriar's 1954 poem in Azerbaijani Turkic — a masterpiece devoted to childhood, the village and the mother tongue.Azerbaijan

• PersonNizami GanjaviGreat poet and thinker (c. 1141–1209), author of the Khamsa, a cycle of five long poems.Azerbaijan
• PersonImadaddin NasimiHurufi poet (c. 1369–1417), one of the first great masters of lyric poetry in Azerbaijani.Azerbaijan
• PersonMuhammad FuzuliGreat lyric poet (c. 1494–1556), author of Leyli and Majnun in Azerbaijani.Azerbaijan
• PersonShah Ismail I (Khatai)Founder of the Safavid state (1487–1524) and a poet writing in Azerbaijani under the pen name Khatai.Azerbaijan
• PersonMolla Panah VagifPoet and vizier of the Karabakh Khanate (1717–1797) who brought Azerbaijani poetry close to the spoken language.Azerbaijan
• PersonKhurshidbanu NatavanPoet and philanthropist (1832–1897), daughter of the last khan of Karabakh, who built Shusha's first water supply.Azerbaijan
• PersonMirza Fatali AkhundzadePlaywright and thinker (1812–1878), founder of Azerbaijani drama.Azerbaijan
• PersonJalil MammadguluzadehWriter and journalist (1866–1932), founder of the famous satirical magazine Molla Nasraddin.Azerbaijan

• LanguageAzerbaijani languageA language of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic family, the state language of Azerbaijan and mother tongue of millions in South Azerbaijan.Azerbaijan

Did you know?

• The epic's thirteenth tale was discovered only in 2018, in a newly found manuscript.

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