Sheikh Izzeddin Esfarayeni | |
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.JPG) Depiction of Hasanoghlu in the Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature in Baku | |
| Born | 13th century Esfarayen, Khorasan (Modern-day Iran) |
| Died | 14th century |
| Pen name | Hasanoghlu, Pur-e Hasan |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Azerbaijani, Persian |
Sheikh Izzeddin Esfarayeni (Azerbaijani: عزالدین حسن اوغلو; Persian: شیخ عزالدین پورحسن اسفراینی), who wrote under the pseudonyms of Hasanoghlu and Pur-e Hasan,[1] was a 13th and 14th century poet who wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian.[2] He is the earliest known author of Azerbaijani literature.[3]
Hasanoghlu was born in Esfarayen in the 13th century.[4] He was a student of Sheikh Jamaladdin Ahmed Zakir, the head of one of the Sufi sects.[4][5] During his lifetime, Hasanoghlu was well-known, with his fame reaching as far as Anatolia.[3] His lyrics influenced many generations of Turkic-language poets.[6] Hasanoghlu primarily composed lyric poems about love[6] that were infused with Sufi ideology.[3][5] He composed a diwan of Azerbaijani and Persian ghazals.[4] Only three of Hasanoghlu's poems have survived.[7]
- ^ Caferoǧlu 2012.
- ^ Javadi & Burrill 1988, pp. 251–255.
- ^ a b c Gasimova 2015, p. 106.
- ^ a b c Beale & Keene 1894, p. 311.
- ^ a b Karayev 1964, p. 81.
- ^ a b Great Soviet Encyclopaedia 1960.
- ^ Heß 2015.
- ^ Flemming 2018, p. 73, "The Turkish poem bearing the taḫalluṣ Ḥasan oġlï, which according to general consensus belongs to Şayḫ ʿIzzed-dīn Asfarāʾinī, has been preserved in an appendix to Sayf-i Sarāyī’s Turkish translation of Saʿdī’s Gulistān, which was completed in Egypt in 1391 and has survived in a single manuscript written in that country".