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GREAT POETS OF AZERBAIJAN
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Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
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Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209) lived and died in Ganja, an ancient city in Azerbaijan where his shrine stands today. He wrote in Persian as was the literary custom of the day though few Persians today grant that Nizami was of Azeri ethnicity.
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Husein Javid (1882-1944)
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Husein Javid was one of Azerbaijan's most gifted and esteemed writers of the 1920s and 1930s. He is remembered for his poetic tragedies, especially "Sheikh Sanan," a historical drama about an Azerbaijani who falls in love with a Georgian girl named Khumar. At the time, the idea of a high-ranking Muslim clergyman falling in love with a Christian woman, carrying a cross and becoming a swineherd was scandalous. Eventually, however, love and humanity triumph over religious bigotry.
In 1937, Javid was arrested by Stalin's regime on charges of being a founding member of a counter-revolutionary group that was organizing a coup. The accusations were false but impossible to disprove, and he was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment. He died in exile in Siberia in 1944, one year short of completing his sentence. His reputation was not cleared until much later after the death of Stalin (1953).
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Mahammad Fuzuli (1495-1556)
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Shah Ismayil Khatai (1487-1524)
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Khurshid-Banu Natavan (1830-97)
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Sabir (1862-1911)
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Samad Vurgun (1906-1956)
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