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UNESCO can declare 2016 year of Azerbaijani poets

29 December 2015 [17:41] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Amina Nazarli

UNESCO, aiming to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting international collaboration, can declare 2016 a year of Imadeddin Nasimi and Molla Panah Vagif, prominent representatives of the Azerbaijani classical literature.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry says such a decision can be a valuable event for Azerbaijan, since the world will have an opportunity to get acquainted with the two great persons of the Land of Fire.

UNESCO can also mark the anniversary of resettlement of the Germans in Azerbaijan, according to the Ministry. All three proposals will be submitted to UNESCO in 2016.

Poet-philosopher of Azerbaijan

The great poet-rebel of the 14th-15th centuries, Imadeddin Nasimi, was an outstanding figure in the history and literature of the Orient.

Nasimi, after his predecessor Nizami Genjevi, is known as one of the publicists, messenger of ideas of humanism, philanthropy in our literature. His creativity is the result of such humanist protest, of opposition to cruelty and violence, of struggle for human rights.

Nasimi, with brilliant knowledge in mathematics, logic, astronomy, and natural sciences, was the founder of philosophy poetry in the national language. Nasimi left a rich lyrical heritage, including ghazals, qasida, and rubaie that captivate one with its passion, fiery temperament and philosophic ideas.

The basic idea of Nasimi’s poetry, permeating all his creativity, is the identification of a person and God, in other words, the deification of man.

Not only the creativity of Nasimi, but also the whole his life surrounded with legend and tale is a school of courage and bravery, insistence on ones ideas, fearlessness of death for generation. The terrible punish given to the poet by reactionary priests for his freedom loving humanist works-stripping off the skin while alive, made this great artist a model to modern generation, as well as future one.

Poet of love and beauty

Molla Panah Vagif is one of the most outstanding poets of medieval Azerbaijan, whose poems were full of optimism.

With simple, real, world beauty images, from classic romantic art he made a great step towards the realism and defined the further direction of the development of Azerbaijan’s literature.

He was also a famous political figure of 18th century, for a long time defined the foreign affairs of the Karabakh khanate. Being close to the Khan, he defended the poor, and tried every possible way to mitigate the arbitrariness of Khan.

Vagif was the founder of realism in Azerbaijani poetry. Vagif’s works have not survived in the manuscripts and were later collected on individual transcriptions or from the mouths of singers.

Azerbaijani Germans

The German page of Azerbaijan’s history is one of the most interesting facts of the world.

Unstable situation in Germany in the 18th-19th centuries forced some Germans to leave their homelands. Landless German peasants left their native German princi pality of Wurttemberg at the beginning of the 19th century, and found shelter many thousands of kilometers away in Azerbaijan, which was then part of the Russian empire.

A number of colonies were created across the country. In early 19th-20th centuries, three of eight German colonies, Eigenfeld, Annenfeld and Georgsfeld, were located in Shamkir.

These colonies were a shelter for German colonists, who created a little Germany here with cozy houses built in German style and tidy streets, with pear and plane trees along them.

But, the World War II destroyed the peaceful life of the colony. Germans were exiled from their second home by Josef Stalin. In October 1941, more than 20,000 German colonists were living in Azerbaijan, and almost all of them were deported to Siberia, Northern Kazakhstan or to the Soviet Republics of Central Asia, to harsh environments.

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