Abbasgulu Bakikhanov

Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
Abbasqulu Bakıxanov
Born	21 June [O.S. 3 July] 1794; Amirjan, Baku Khanate, Qajar Iran
Died	January 1847 (aged 52–53); Wadi Fatimah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Other names	Qodsi (pen name)
Occupation(s)	writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher
Known for	Father of Azerbaijani historiography
Parent	Mirza Muhammad Khan II (father);
Family	Bakikhanovs

Abbasgulu agha Bakikhanov^[a] (Azerbaijani: Abbasqulu ağa Bakıxanov) (21 June [O.S. 3 July] 1794,^[3] Amirjan – January 1847, Wadi Fatimah, near Jeddah), Abbas Qoli Bakikhanov,^[4]^[b] or Abbas-Qoli ibn Mirza Mohammad (Taghi) Khan Badkubi^[5] was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher. He was son of the third khan of Baku Mirza Muhammad Khan II. Served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army and participated in the Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828, he later retired and settled in Quba.

Also known by his pen name Qodsi (Azeri: Qüdsi), many Azerbaijani scholars view Bakikhanov as among their first thinkers and historians.^[6] He is credited with being the first person that wrote a "scholarly monograph on the history of greater Shirvan"; the area that would later make up most of the Republic of Azerbaijan.^[7] His Qanun-e Qodsi, was the first Persian grammar manual published.

^ Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019). "The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf's Cosmological Cosmopolitanism". Comparative Literature. 71 (3): 272–273. doi:10.1215/00104124-7546287. S2CID 165301161. The present article develops this emergent area of inquiry through an examination of the writings, life, and legacy of the polymath Persianate intellectual ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf (1794–1847). Bākīkhānūf came of age in an era of empire, in his case specifically of Russian incursions onto Qajar territory. While Bākīkhānūf was born into what was the Qajar empire, his place of birth was incorporated into the Russian empire with the Treaty of Gulistan (1813), ratified during his teenage years.
^ Storey, Charles Ambrose (1970). Persian Literature: v.1: A Bio-bibliographical Survey. Luzac Publishing Ltd. p. 428. ISBN 978-0718901417. by 'Abbas-QulI " Qudsi " Badkubi or Baku-Khanov.
^ Altstadt, Audrey L. (2011-02-09), NASIHATLAR (ADMONITIONS) OF ABBAS KULU AGHA BAKIKHANLI, Gorgias Press, pp. 117–158, doi:10.31826/9781463229900-008, ISBN 978-1-4632-2990-0, retrieved 2023-12-12
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- Floor, Willem M.; Javadi, Hassan. "The heavenly rose-garden: a history of Shirvan & Daghestan, by Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov", (Mage Publishers, 2009), p. vii; "Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov, also known under the pen-name Qodsi, was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher. He was born on Thursday, the 4th Dhu'l-Hejjeh 1208 hijri, or the 10th of June in the year 1794 in the village of Amir Hajan near Baku. Bakikhanov was a scion of the ruling dynasty of the Khanate of Baku, being the nephew of the last khan of Baku. His father Mirza Mohammad Khan II was the ninth Khan of Baku and was (...)"
- Bournoutian, George A. "A Brief History of the Aghuankʻ Region, by Esayi Hasan Jalaleantsʻ", (Mazda Publishers, 2009), p. 10; "Even more irritating was the fact that Muslim historians, who had lived in the territory of what later became the Azerbaijan Republic, men like Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov Mirza Jamal Javanshir and Mirza Adigozal Beg, the first of whom was honored by the Academy of Sciences in Baku as the father of the history of Azerbaijan, had clearly indicated a strong Armenian presence in Karabagh prior to 1828 and had placed the region within the territory of historic Armenia."
^ Storey, Charles Ambrose (1970). Persian Literature: v.1: A Bio-bibliographical Survey. Luzac Publishing Ltd. p. 428. ISBN 978-0718901417. by 'Abbas-Quli "Qudsi" Badkubi or Baku-Khanov.
^ Bournoutian 2004, p. 17, "The last source examined here is by ʻAbbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov (1794-1847), referred to by many Azerbaijani scholars as one of their earliest intellectuals and historians".
^ Bournoutian 2004, p. 17.

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[1] Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019). "The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf's Cosmological Cosmopolitanism". Comparative Literature. 71 (3): 272–273. doi:10.1215/00104124-7546287. S2CID 165301161. The present article develops this emergent area of inquiry through an examination of the writings, life, and legacy of the polymath Persianate intellectual ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf (1794–1847). Bākīkhānūf came of age in an era of empire, in his case specifically of Russian incursions onto Qajar territory. While Bākīkhānūf was born into what was the Qajar empire, his place of birth was incorporated into the Russian empire with the Treaty of Gulistan (1813), ratified during his teenage years.

[2] Storey, Charles Ambrose (1970). Persian Literature: v.1: A Bio-bibliographical Survey. Luzac Publishing Ltd. p. 428. ISBN 978-0718901417. by 'Abbas-QulI " Qudsi " Badkubi or Baku-Khanov.

[:1-4] Altstadt, Audrey L. (2011-02-09), NASIHATLAR (ADMONITIONS) OF ABBAS KULU AGHA BAKIKHANLI, Gorgias Press, pp. 117–158, doi:10.31826/9781463229900-008, ISBN 978-1-4632-2990-0, retrieved 2023-12-12

[5] 
Floor, Willem M.; Javadi, Hassan. "The heavenly rose-garden: a history of Shirvan & Daghestan, by Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov", (Mage Publishers, 2009), p. vii; "Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov, also known under the pen-name Qodsi, was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher. He was born on Thursday, the 4th Dhu'l-Hejjeh 1208 hijri, or the 10th of June in the year 1794 in the village of Amir Hajan near Baku. Bakikhanov was a scion of the ruling dynasty of the Khanate of Baku, being the nephew of the last khan of Baku. His father Mirza Mohammad Khan II was the ninth Khan of Baku and was (...)"

Bournoutian, George A. "A Brief History of the Aghuankʻ Region, by Esayi Hasan Jalaleantsʻ", (Mazda Publishers, 2009), p. 10; "Even more irritating was the fact that Muslim historians, who had lived in the territory of what later became the Azerbaijan Republic, men like Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov Mirza Jamal Javanshir and Mirza Adigozal Beg, the first of whom was honored by the Academy of Sciences in Baku as the father of the history of Azerbaijan, had clearly indicated a strong Armenian presence in Karabagh prior to 1828 and had placed the region within the territory of historic Armenia."

[5] Floor, Willem M.; Javadi, Hassan. "The heavenly rose-garden: a history of Shirvan & Daghestan, by Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov", (Mage Publishers, 2009), p. vii; "Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov, also known under the pen-name Qodsi, was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher. He was born on Thursday, the 4th Dhu'l-Hejjeh 1208 hijri, or the 10th of June in the year 1794 in the village of Amir Hajan near Baku. Bakikhanov was a scion of the ruling dynasty of the Khanate of Baku, being the nephew of the last khan of Baku. His father Mirza Mohammad Khan II was the ninth Khan of Baku and was (...)"

[6] Bournoutian, George A. "A Brief History of the Aghuankʻ Region, by Esayi Hasan Jalaleantsʻ", (Mazda Publishers, 2009), p. 10; "Even more irritating was the fact that Muslim historians, who had lived in the territory of what later became the Azerbaijan Republic, men like Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov Mirza Jamal Javanshir and Mirza Adigozal Beg, the first of whom was honored by the Academy of Sciences in Baku as the father of the history of Azerbaijan, had clearly indicated a strong Armenian presence in Karabagh prior to 1828 and had placed the region within the territory of historic Armenia."

[7] Storey, Charles Ambrose (1970). Persian Literature: v.1: A Bio-bibliographical Survey. Luzac Publishing Ltd. p. 428. ISBN 978-0718901417. by 'Abbas-Quli "Qudsi" Badkubi or Baku-Khanov.

[FOOTNOTEBournoutian200417"The_last_source_examined_here_is_by_ʻAbbas_Qoli_Aqa_Bakikhanov_(1794-1847),_referred_to_by_many_Azerbaijani_scholars_as_one_of_their_earliest_intellectuals_and_historians"-8] Bournoutian 2004, p. 17, "The last source examined here is by ʻAbbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov (1794-1847), referred to by many Azerbaijani scholars as one of their earliest intellectuals and historians".

[FOOTNOTEBournoutian200417-9] Bournoutian 2004, p. 17.

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Abbasgulu Bakikhanov
Abbasqulu Bakıxanov

Born	21 June [O.S. 3 July] 1794 Amirjan, Baku Khanate, Qajar Iran^[1]
Died	January 1847 (aged 52–53) Wadi Fatimah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Other names	Qodsi (pen name)
Occupation(s)	writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher
Known for	Father of Azerbaijani historiography
Parent	Mirza Muhammad Khan II (father)
Family	Bakikhanovs