Mirza Fatali Akhundov

Mirza Fətəli Axundov was born in 1812 in Nukha, present-day Şəki, and was raised by a maternal uncle, a man of religion; in Ganja, a poet turned him away from a religious career. Having entered in 1834 as a translator of Oriental languages at the chancellery of the Russian viceroy of the Caucasus, in Tiflis, he served there until his death. In 1863 he presented in Istanbul a reform of the Arabic script, which was rejected, and wrote fictitious letters that attacked Islam and advocated a return to a pre-Islamic past. He died in Tiflis in March 1878.

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• TheatreCollected Dramatic Works of Mirza Fath-Ali AkhundzadehTəmsilatMirza Fatali Akhundov · 1859Literature