Impact of “Molla Nasraddin” literary school on the formation of satire traditions emerging in South Azerbaijan

Abstract

The article focuses on the fact that the satirical magazine “Molla Nasraddin” has been a
media organ struggling against the monarchy, dictatorship, oppression and tyranny in South
Azerbaijan and Iran from the time the magazine started to be published. The main goal of the
magazine “Molla Nasraddin”, is to see the people of Azerbaijan and its citizens free, happy and to
lead the way to people deprived of the right to live freely, spread its progressive ideas among their
southern compatriots and called on them to struggle against the bloody regime. Therefore, the
Iranian authorities prevented spreading the magazine in Iran and created obstacles for it to cross the
line. However, the magazine “Molla Nasraddin” was widely distributed in Iran and South Azerbaijan, and stimulated to the emergence of satirical press there. The “Azerbaijan” magazine,
that began to be published on December 6, 1906 under the editorship of Aligul Safarov,
successfully continued the “Molla Nasraddin” tradition. The negative cases such as the arbitrariness
of the Iranian monarchy, the abuse of the poor by the authorities, and the endlessness of the Shah's
tyranny was reflected in the “Azerbaijan” magazine and this factor made it very closer to “Molla
Nasraddin” in terms of theme, idea and genre diversity. That is why he was called “Molla
Nasraddin” of South Azerbaijan. At a time when the constitutional movement was expanding in
Iran, “Molla Nasraddin” magazine had a strong influence on such media organs as “Sure-Israfil” in
Tehran, “Nasime-Shimal” in Rasht, and “Amuzigar”.
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