Dovletmammet Azadi

Dovletmammet Azadi was born around 1695 or 1700. A Sufi scholar, he taught children at school and farmed the land; he was also the first teacher of his son, the poet Magtymguly. Besides his great didactic poem, he composed the Behiştnama in verse. He died in 1760 and was buried in the cemetery of Aktokay, in what is now the Iranian province of Golestan: the tombs of father and son, side by side, receive visits from thousands of pilgrims every year.

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• PoetryWagzy-AzatDovletmammet Azadi · 1754not translated into EnglishLiterature