Zalimkhan Yagub and Borchali ashugs

Abstract

People's poet Zalimkhan Yagub (1950-2016) is one of the outstanding representatives of modern Azerbaijani poetry. The fate of the people, the subtlest issues of its spiritual and moral world are among the main idea-artistic sources of the poet's creativity. Just as Zalimkhan Yagub raises the concepts embodying the existence and eternal life of the ethnic group he belongs to in his poems to a high level of ideals with his poet's understanding and talent, he manages to turn such a mission into the main object of attitude and praise in his epic heritage - poems. Zalimkhan Yagub's research on Borchali ashugs also attracts our attention. His poems and deyishmes such as “Uncle Amrah”, “Letter to Ashug Kamandar”, “I listened to justice”, “Ashug Khanlara”, “Ashug Amrah”, “I was wrapped up in saz”, the work “Huseyn Sarajlı”, the poem “Saz” are written in the style of ashug poem. He wrote works and researched about Borchali's ashugs such as Ashug Ahmed Sadakhli, Khindi Mammad, Huseyn Sarajli and others.