Ashig Alasgar

Ashig Alasgar
Born1821 (1821)
Aghkilsa, Erivan Khanate
DiedMarch 7, 1926 (aged 104–105)
Aghkilsa, Nor Bayazet uezd, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Website
dede-alesker.com

Ashig Alasgar (Azerbaijani: Aşıq Ələsgər; 1821 – 7 March 1926) was an Azerbaijani mystic troubadour (Ashik) and highly regarded poet of Azerbaijani folk songs.[1] He was born in the village of Aghkilsa in the Goycha District of the Erivan Khanate.[2]

  1. ^ "Article by Anna Oldfeld Senarslan, University of Wisconsin, Conference on Music in the world of Islam, 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
  2. ^ "Who is who (in Azerbaijani)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-11-28.