Gasim bey Zakir

Gasim bey Zakir
BornProbably 1786
Panahabad, Karabakh Khanate
Died1857
Shusha, Shushinsky Uyezd, Russian Empire
Resting placeMirza Hassan Cemetery
OccupationPoet

Gasim bey Zakir[a] (Azerbaijani: Qasım bəy Zakir; died 1857) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 19th century and one of the founders of the critical realism and satirical genre in Azerbaijani literature. He is considered to be the foremost Azerbaijani poet and satirist of the first half of the 19th century,[1] and the greatest master of 19th-century comic poetry in Azerbaijani.[2]

He is the grandfather of Abdulla bey Asi and Ibrahim Bey Azer.

  1. ^ a b Brands, H.W. (1965). "Ḏh̲ākir". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. OCLC 495469475.
  2. ^ Caferoǧlu, A. (1960). "Ād̲h̲arī (Azerī)". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. OCLC 495469456.


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