Back Molla Pənah Vaqif Azerbaijani ملاپناه واقف AZB Molla Panah Vagif Czech Molla Pənah Vaqif German Molla Panah Vagif Spanish ملاپناه واقف Persian Vaqif Finnish Molla Panah Vaguif French Մոլլա Փանահ Վագիֆ Armenian მოლა ფანაჰ ვაგიფი Georgian
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 (aged 79–80) Shusha, Karabakh Khanate |
| 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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- ^ Grant, Bruce (2007). Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area. Lit. p. 110. ISBN 978-3-8258-9906-6.