Molla Panah Vagif | |
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Molla Pənah Vaqif | |
![]() Azerbaijani stamp with Molla Panah Vagif | |
Vizier of Karabakh Khanate | |
In office 1769–1797 | |
Appointed by | Ibrahim Khalil Khan |
Succeeded by | Mirza Jamal Javanshir |
Personal details | |
Born | 1717 Yukhary Salahly, Kazakh sultanate |
Died | 1797 Shusha, Karabakh Khanate | (aged 79–80)
Resting place | Vagif Mausoleum |
Occupation | Poet |
Molla Panah (Azerbaijani: Molla Pənah), better known by his pen-name Vagif (Arabic: واقِف, lit. 'The Learned One'),[1] was an 18th-century Azerbaijani poet, statesman and diplomat. He is regarded as the founder of the realism genre and the modern school in Azerbaijani poetry.[2] He served as the vizier—the minister of foreign affairs—of the Karabakh Khanate during the reign of Ibrahim Khalil Khan.[3][4]
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