Molla Panah Vagif
1717
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1797
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: lyric poetry, qoşma, ghazal
country of citizenship: Safavid Empire, Karabakh Khanate
languages spoken, written or signed: Azerbaijani
position held: vizier
Molla Panah (Azerbaijani: Molla Pənah), better known by his pen-name Vagif (Arabic: واقِف, lit. 'The Learned One'), was an 18th-century Azerbaijani poet, statesman and diplomat. He is regarded as the founder of the realism genre in Azerbaijani poetry. He served as the vizier—the minister of foreign affairs—of the Karabakh Khanate during the reign of Ibrahim Khalil Khan. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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