Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

As a result of research conducted at the Ankara National Library, Deputy Director of the Institute of Manuscripts after Muhammad Fuzuli, Dr. Philology Pasha Karimov has obtained copy of XVI century divan by Ottoman poet Heyrati, in which creativity strong influence of Nasimi is observed.

The divan includes more than 100 gazelles, one tarjiband.

According to the researchers, the poet belonged to the sect of Bektashi or Galandari. In his works he calls himself dervish, Greek abdal, sufi. From one poem of the poet it turns out that, abroad he lived in the capital of Macedonia in Skopje, on the coast of the Vardar River. In the divan, the influence of the great Uzbek poet Alisher Navai is also observed.

©All rights are reserved. Citing to www.science.gov.az is necessary upon using news.