Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

Pasha Karimov, deputy director of scientific affairs at the Institute of Manuscripts of ANAS, Dr. Philology, has received a 40-page copy of the "Ashug Qurbani" epic in Istanbul in 1880.

In the printed and scaled version of the book, the son of Huseynali khan's poor brother Gurban who lives on the outskirts of Araz, falls in love with Peri khanum, to the daughter of Ziyad khan, khan of Ganja, after troubles he gets her. But in the Istanbul version of the work, he falls in love with the sister of the Izzet khan, the governor of Karabakh, who lives in Ajam, and is married to her after a series of adventures.

A number of poems are repeated in both versions of the epic.

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