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Nizami scholar: falsifying the national origin of Nizami Ganjavi is the next provocation of our enemies

13-03-2023 [ 16:10 ] [ read:45 ]
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The falsification of the national origin of the genius Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi is one of the next provocations directed against our independent state and people by our enemies.

To examine the essence of the matter, we have to turn to history. As we know, Azerbaijan was divided between Russia and Iran in accordance with the Gulustan (1813) and Turkmenchai (1828) treaties signed between Russia and Iran in the 19th century, and the northern part of Azerbaijan was included in Russia and the southern part in Iran.

When the last Darbend Khanate in Northern Azerbaijan was annexed to Russia, the invaders and their Armenian servants thought that the "Turkish issue" was already being resolved in Azerbaijan. In other words, their insidious policy of falsifying the Turkish origin of the Azerbaijani population is about to take place. But it didn't happen like that. Both in the south and in the north, the Azerbaijani people kept alive their history, Turkish language, culture, and literature to which they belong, even under colonial conditions.

Zahra Allahverdiyeva, Ph.D. in philology, associate professor, leading researcher of Nizami Ganjavi Institute of Literature of ANAS told AZERTAC about this.

Zahra Allahverdiyeva noted that the insidious policy was continued even after the Bolsheviks came to power in Northern Azerbaijan in the 20th century. In the late 1920s and mid-1930s, the fate of Azerbaijan was in danger. What was this threat?

At the instigation of Armenians, the idea of changing the geographical and political map of the Caucasus region, giving many territories of Northern Azerbaijan to Armenians, and generally erasing the name of Azerbaijan was put on the agenda. Scientists who are the ideologues of this insidious policy, for example, the historian-oriental scientist Ilya Petrushevski, in the 30s, proposed to change the name of Northern Azerbaijan to "Eastern Transcaucasia" and published related articles. Pakhomov, another ideologist of this policy, began to present South Azerbaijan under the name of Iran in his works.

Similar processes were started after South Azerbaijan khanates were annexed to Iran. But the strong resistance of the people did not allow the invader. This process was strengthened after Reza Shah, the founder of the chauvinist Persian Pahlavi dynasty, who came to power in 1925 by overthrowing Sultan Ahmad Shah, the last king of the Turko-Qajar dynasty. It is known that Fars, i.e. Persia, was actually a province of Iran. In 1935, Reza Shah declared Iran the land of the Aryans, that is, the Indo-Iranian speaking tribes, and for this purpose, the language of the Turks living in those areas, including the Azerbaijani Turks, began to be falsified. This process was continued during the reign of his son Mohammad Reza Shah. The falsifications carried out on the language of the Azeri Turks, the fabricated lies about the alleged Persian origin of this language are a clear proof of this.

From that period, serious attempts were made to falsify the origin of the representatives of Farsi-speaking poetry of the East, as well as the Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi. However, before that, in 1926, when Yuri Marr, a prominent orientalist-scientist, was on a visit to Tehran, the famous Iranian scientist Said Nafisi said in his conversation with him: "Persians do not understand Nizami, his poems are foreign to Persians."

Yes, Nizami Ganjavi clearly stated his Turkish origin in his works:

My father, my father's father, was Turkish,

In imagination, each was a worm.

It should be noted that many sources and researchers have confirmed that the population of Ganja, one of the central cities of ancient Azerbaijan, consists of Turks. Y.E. As mentioned by Bertels, even after the invasion of the Arabs in the 7th century, the administrative apparatus in the Caucasus was managed by local Turkish gentlemen who converted to Islam.

Nizami Ganjavi's grandfather, Zaki Muayyed-din, was originally from the family of noblemen who came from the Boz Okh branch of the Oghuz Turks. He was a cleric in Ganja and a person close to the Seljuk court and was awarded the title of "Muayyad-din" - (God-strengthened in religion, preserved).

The poet's mother was a noble Turkish girl from a noble family in Azerbaijan. He opened his eyes to the world in Ganja.

Nizami Ganjavi's uncle, that is, his mother's brother, Khaja Umar, was a person with a high reputation close to the Ganja palace. At that time, the title "Khaja" was given to the head of the guards of the royal palace. According to the famous Dehkhoda dictionary, "the head of the palace was called Khaja." It is also important to note that according to the rules of the Turkish sultan's palaces, Turkish nobles who made a name for themselves in bravery and loyalty were chosen for the position of chief of the palace - Khaja. This fact itself confirms that Nizami's mother was a noble Turkish girl.

Nizami Ganjavi called himself "Uveys". The name "Uveys" has a Turkic root and a symbol related to the totem. The ancient Arabs named Oghuz - "Uveys", that is, "Wolf Cub". In ancient Arabic and Persian dictionaries, "Uwais" is a Kurdish name.

As can be seen from these facts, the genius Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi from both father's side and his nationality is Turkish through his mother's line. The information provided by the poet in his works is a vivid proof of this.

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