Ideas of tolerance and humanism in Imadeddin Nasimi’s heritage

Abstract

In this article, the author states that Imadeddin Nasimi is one of the leading figures of artistic and philosophical thought of Azerbaijan and the entire ancient East. Nasimi with his high intellectual and moral culture, broad outlook and creative activity earned honored authority in the Middle East. Nasimi’s ideas about moral improvement of human and his intellectual creativity influenced positively on inhabitants of Muslim countries. Nasimi’s ideas were based on a call for the formation of a society of highly cultured people only through the moral improvement of human. This approach was associated with a critical rethinking of life, condemnation of evil, cruelty, fanaticism, ignorance, intolerance and other destructive human qualities leading to estrangement, violence, conflict and war. Despite the six centuries that have passed since the poet’s physical existence, the interest in his personality and creativity does not weaken with time, but on the contrary, increases. The ideas of tolerance and humanism of a great thinker do not lose their relevance and today they are needed and more interesting to future generations than their own age, to their contemporaries.