Mirza Shafi Vazeh

Mirza Shafi Vazeh
Illustration of Vazeh in Tausend und ein Tag im Orient by Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1850)
Native name	Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh
Born	Mirza Shafi Sadykh-oglu late 18th–early 19th century Ganja, Ganja Khanate
Died	16 November 1852 Tiflis, Russian Empire
Resting place	Pantheon of prominent Azerbaijanis
Pen name	Vazeh
Occupation	Poet, Teacher
Language	Azerbaijani, Persian
Genre	Poems, Ghazals, Mukhammas, Mathnawis and Rubais

Mirza Shafi Vazeh (Azerbaijani: Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh; میرزا شفیع واضح; died 16 November 1852) was an Azerbaijani poet and teacher. He used the name "Vazeh", which means "expressive, clear". He wrote in the languages of Azerbaijani and Persian. He changed the traditions of poetry in these languages. He made the first anthology of Azerbaijani poetry. He also made a Tatar-Russian dictionary for the Tiflis gymnasium. He did this with the Russian teacher Ivan Grigoriev.

He wrote multiple ghazals, mukhammases, mathnawis and rubais. The main theme in his works are about love and enjoying life. In some of his poems, he talks about how feudal society is bad. He was against slavery and religious fanaticism.

The German poet Friedrich von Bodenstedt took language lessons from Vazeh. In 1850, he published translations of his poems. He put the poems in the book A Thousand and One Days in the East in 1850. Bodenstedt's book, called Songs of Mirza Shafi, was published in 1851.

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  Mirza Shafi Street in Baku
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  Mirza Shafi Vazeh museum in Ganja

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• Biography of Mirza-Shafi Vazeh
• Mirza Shafi Vazeh