Manuscripts of Nizami Ganjavi’s works written in Azerbaijani found in Armenia – Sensational information – PHOTOS

Prof. Dr. Zaur Aliyev has shared a post on his Facebook account about the discovery in 1940 of manuscripts of Nizami Ganjavi’s works written in Azerbaijani at the Matenadaran in Yerevan.

TodayPress TV reports that, in his post, he noted that at the time, a number of works believed to belong to Nizami Ganjavi were discovered in the Persian manuscripts section of the Matenadaran.

According to Zaur Aliyev, in 1940, an employee of the museum with the surname Shabanov discovered, in the Persian manuscripts section No. 43, alongside Nizami’s “Khamsa” and “The Seven Beauties,” a 12-line “Nizami ghazal” written in Azerbaijani.

The post notes that after the document was discovered, Armenian scholars Acharyan, Shakhnazaryan and Arimfaryan examined the manuscript. It was reported that the manuscript was written in Azerbaijani and belonged to Nizami Ganjavi.

Zaur Aliyev also referred to a letter written by Matenadaran Director Grigor Abov to Mir Jafar Baghirov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and Arutyunyan, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Armenian Communist Party.

According to the professor’s post, those documents stated that there were poems written by Nizami in Azerbaijani Turkish and that two versions of “Layla and Majnun” – in Persian and Azerbaijani Turkish – had been found.

The post also states that the Armenian side managed to invite specialists in Persian literature from Leningrad to Yerevan to clarify the matter. However, World War II prevented the research from being carried out.

Zaur Aliyev claims that Nizami Ganjavi’s manuscripts, books and other ancient documents in Azerbaijani Turkish were not subsequently handed over to the Azerbaijani side and that these documents are being kept at the Matenadaran.

Kubra Musayeva