PROFESSOR BAKIR CHOBANZADE ON THE ROLE OF M.FIZULI IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AZERBAIJANI LITERARY LANGUAGE OF THE XVI CENTURY

Abstract

The authoritative and most active representative of the I Turkological Congress, Professor Bekir
Chobanzade, in his reports "On the Close Relationship of the Turkic Languages" and "On the System
of Scientific Terminology" for the first time on the basis of "Divan Lugat at-Turk" by the Patriarch of
Turkology Mahmud Kashgari put forward a scientific idea about the common roots of the Turkic
languages, drew attention to the proximity of the language, literature, history, ethnography of the
Turkic peoples.
The wide creative geography of the scientist is devoted to the coverage of various Turkic literary
languages and the role of individual masters of the word in their development.
In the voluminous article “Fizuli and his place”, the author expresses his solidarity with the opinion of the famous European scholar Mister Gibb, author of the six-volume “History of Ottoman Poetry”, that “Fuzuli is the most sincere, most sensitive poet of the East ".
The scientific judgments of Prof. B.Chobanzade, expressed by him on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the birth of M.Fizuli, still retain their scientific value after 100 years, and there is no
doubt that they will retain it in the near and distant future. In the article prof. B. Chobanzade, summarizing the statements of famous scientists - from the progenitor of European Turkology Hammer to
Prof. Krymsky - about M.Fuzuli as the "sultan of poets", notes with great pride that "in all Turkic
literature there is no greater poet, than Fizuli, he took a place of honor among the immortal oriental
poets with his inimitable poetry. B. Chobanzade expresses his attitude to the opinion of prof. Krymsky
that Fuzuli can also be considered a Persian, Ottoman poet. He emphasizes the important role of the
socio-economic and cultural situation that prevailed before the 17th century. in the East, especially in
Iraq, its capital Baghdad and around it, and notes that at that time a special three-tiered - Arab, Persian, Turkic population was formed, which in turn created a single eastern general intellectual atmosphere. In this atmosphere, along with Fuzuli, other outstanding poets, philosophers, writers also
worked, thus creating a kind of “field of Eastern literature”. Prof. B. Chobanzade wrote that in the era
of Fizuli in the East, including Turkey, such mystic poets as Ahmed Yasevi, Yunis Imre, Ashug Pasha
and others matured. Although Fuzuli wrote during this period, he did not was a Sufi mystic, he was a
true Sufi.