Mirza Alakbar Sabir

Mirza Alakbar Sabir, whose real name was Alakbar Tahirzade, was born in Shamakhi on 30 May 1862. Encouraged in his studies by the poet Seyid Azim Shirvani, he travelled in the mid-1880s in Iran and Central Asia, then published his first poem in 1903 in a Tiflis newspaper. He then gave the bulk of his work to a humorous periodical in the same city, under many pseudonyms, and attacked the clergy, officials and the powerful. He taught in Baku in 1910, suffered from a liver disease and died on 12 July 1911.

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• PoetryHophopnaməMirza Alakbar Sabir · 1912not translated into EnglishLiterature