Keywords:
Turkish minstrels, Kazakh poets, Dede Korkut, kobyz, dombyra, saz
МРНТИ 17.09.91
J.Shukurova
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Institute of Manuscrips of National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan,
Baku, Azerbajan
AZIZ DOWLATABADI AND HIS TEZKIRE “SUKHANVARANI-AZERBAIJAN”
(AZERBAIJANI POETS)
Abstract
Aziz Dowlatabadi is one of the productive scholars of Sothern Azerbaijan who presented many works to the field of
literature. Besides “Sukhanvarani-Azerbaijan” consisted of two volumes, other works written by the scholar such as the
tezkire named “Persian speaking poets living in the Caucasus”, “Correction of Kamal Khojandi and Malik Mahmud
Tabrizi’s divans”, “History of development of modern Persian prose”, “Libraries of Azerbaijan”, “Dictionary of Turkish
and Mongolian words in the Persian texts” give information about his productivity.
“Sukhanvarani-Azerbaijan” is a contemporary tezkire with the territorial characteristics. The work was compiled by
territories in alphabetical order. Speaking about the characteristics of the tezkire “Sukhanvarani-Azerbaijan” it is
important to note that the author gave not only the biographic information about each poet, but also didn’t forget to
notice of the negative features of their creativity, approaching objectively to those poets’ activities. Aziz Dowlatabadi
took into consideration all details compiling this work; in the beginning he gave old poets’ biographies of each territory.
For the detailed information about them Dowlatabadi used a lot of sources. Then he gave a list of contemporary poets
and finally, a list of poets who wrote in Azerbaijani Turkish. Paying attention to the form of tezkire, we see that the
author ranged the poets for the pennames and relations.
Keywords:
Tezkire, “Sukhanvarani-Azerbaijan”, poets, Southern Azerbaijan
The tradition of tezkire which had been considerably developed at the beginning of the 20
th
century,
started to embrace new principles simplifying the research of the history of literature and being more suitable
for readers. Though Mahammadali Tarbiyat’s work “Danishmandani Azerbaijan” seems to continue the
tradition of tezkireof the Middle East during the 20
th
century, for some of its research methods it is much
more related to the modern literary criticism than previous tezkires” [1, 52]. Mahammadali Tarbiyat
successfully continued the period of the literary-historical research that had been started by Salman Mumtaz
and Firudin bey Kocharli. In the 20
th
century a lot of works written in the tezkire genre had great success in
the Azerbaijani literary criticism for its scientific character and fullness, and opened a way to many new
works. Literary critics such as Gulam Mammadli, Seyid Abdulhamid Khalkhali, Mahammad Deyhim, Aziz
Абай атындағы ҚазҰПУ-нің Хабаршысы, «Филология ғылымдары» сериясы №4(62) 2017 ж.
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Dowlatabadi removed the period of stagnation appeared in the tradition oftezkire and succeeded in making
urgent this tradition.
Aziz Dowlatabadi is one of the productive scholars of Sothern Azerbaijan. He was born in 1922 year.
Aziz Dowlatabadi presented many works to the field of literature. Besides “Sukhanvarani-Azerbaijan”
consisted of two volumes, other works written by the scholar such as the tezkire named “Persian speaking
poets living in the Caucasus”, “Correction of Kamal Khojandi and Malik Mahmud Tabrizi’s divans”,
“History of the development of the modern Persian prose”, “Libraries of Azerbaijan”, “Dictionary of Turkish
and Mongolian words in the Persian texts” give information about his productivity.
In Aziz Dowlatabadi’s activities have always been noticed old traditions of the tezkire. Deep love to his
land, origin and ancestors led A.Dowlatabadi to collect the works of the forgotten or unremarkable
Azerbaijani poets written in Persian and compile a book in two volumes. He had begun this work in 1966
and published articles under the names “Poets of Khalkhal”, “Poets of Maraga”, “Poets of Anzab”, “Poets of
Miyana”, “Poets of Arazbaran”, “Poets of Ardabil” in the publishing house of the Institute of Literature in
Tabriz city. Based on them he worked on this tezkire about ten years and publishing a monumental work in
two volumes A.Dowlatabadi took a significant step in the history of the Azerbaijani literature.
In the first volume is given information about the 368 poets from Ardabil, Arazbaran, Urmiya, Arvanaq,
Anzab and Tabriz, in the second volume about the 332 poets from Khalkhal, Khoy, Sarab, Salmas, Maku,
Maraga, Marand, Mehabad, Miyandaab, Miyana, Garmarud and Naqda. The oldest poet among them lived in
the 11
th
, the youngest one in the 20
th
centuries about who is given the biographic information in both
volumes. The tezkire had been firstly published in 1976-78 years in the publishing house of the Institute of
Literature of Tabriz, later in 1998 year it was republished.
“Sukhanvarani-Azerbaijan” is a contemporary tezkire with the territorial characteristics. The work was
compiled by territories in the alphabetical order. In the interior of the section classified by territories is also
given information about poets in the Arabic alphabetical order. That’s why time order is not followed in the
sections. For example, Arif Ardabili, a poet lived in the 14
th
century comes before Molla Heydar Ali, who
was known with a penname Faiz in the 11
th
century, a poet of the 20
th
century Binash Tabrizi is placed before
Purqam Tabrizi, lived in the 19
th
century, Jafar Tabrizi, who lived and created in the 17
th
century precedes
Mir Mahammad Jafar, a poet of the 16
th
century, Chalabi Tabrizi, a poet of the 17
th
century comes before
Haji Tabrizi, who lived in the 16
th
century. By the way, it is important to note that not in all contemporary
tezkires are followed this order. For example, “Shuarayi-Azerbaijan” (Azerbaijani poets) work differs from
“Sukhanvarani-Azerbaijan” which is the tezkire of Deyhim compiled by territories. None of mentioned
principles are followed in “Shuarayi-Azerbaijan”; no writers were ordered in the alphabetic order, for their
birth years or centuries they lived in. So, Movju comes before Iqbal Arazbarani, Ginabi Afshar is placed
before Chakar Urmiya, Hushyar Afshar precedes Adsiz Urmiya. One of the characteristics of the
composition principles in Aziz Dowlatabadi’s tezkire is taking into consideration the genealogical tree of the
poets whom about he gave information.
Alqas Mirza Safavi – son of Shah Ismail I [2, 3];
Badius Zaman Bahram Mirza oglu, Shah Ismail I’s grandson [2, 9].
By the way, we should note that in most tezkires with the analogical contents of the 19
th
century which
we have drawn into research work for comparison, this principle wasn’t followed.
Aziz Dowlatabadi took into consideration all the details compiling this work; in the beginning he gave old
poets’ biographies of each territory. For the detailed information about them Dowlatabadi used a lot of sources.
Then he gave a list of contemporary poets and finally, a list of poets who wrote in Azerbaijani Turkish. Paying
attention to the form of the tezkire, we see that the author ranged the poets for the pennames and relations. The
poets without any pennames were ranged for their pseudonyms and names. For example, Kamaladdin Husseyn
bin Khaja Sharafaddin Abdulhaq is given with his penname Ilahi, Haji Mirza Mohsun ibn Molla Abdulbaqi
with a penname Hali [2, 225], Mirza Mahammadrezi ibn Mirza Mahammad Shafi with a penname Banda. In
this tezkire we also meet that most poets used the names of their birthplaces as pennames. For example:
Safiaddin Ardabili, Arif Ardabili, Ahmad Tasuchi, Nabati Garajadaghi, Shams Tabrizi.
Biographical information about the poets is given comprehensively and accurately; information about
places where poets study, poets’ teachers, other skills they possessed beside literature, purposes of their
travels to other countries, posts they held characteristic to their periods, their death and cemeteries they were
buried. For example, Ahmad Kuzakunan died in Kazimeyn city of Iraq, but was buried in the sepulchre of
Sheikh Hassan Mamaqani in Najaf. Mahmud Shabustari [3, 105] died in Shabustar, was buried in the middle
of the famous garden named Gulshan by side the tomb of his teacher Bahaeddin Yagub Tabrizi. In some
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