1. Jalil Mammadguluzadeh was the founder of Molla Nasraddin, a satirical magazine that would greatly influence the genre in the Middle East and Central Asia.
11 Facts About Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh was born in the territory of the modern-day Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan.
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh first joined ecclesiastical school and went to Nakhchivan city school and learned Russian at the age of thirteen.
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh considered himself to be Iranian, and was proud of the fact that his ancestors hailed from Iran.
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh condemned many of his contemporaries for what he considered a corruption of the Azerbaijani language by replacing its genuine vocabulary with newly introduced Russian, Persian and Ottoman Turkish loanwords, often alien and confusing to many readers.
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In 1921, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh published eight more issues of the magazine in Tabriz, Persia.
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In 1907, the twice-widowed Jalil Mammadguluzadeh married Azerbaijani philanthropist and feminist-activist Hamida Javanshir.
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh wrote in various genres, including short stories, novels, essays, and dramatics.
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh wrote the tragedy namely "Kamanca" that was dedicated to Karabakh problem.
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh's religious views are disputed, and while some argue that he was an atheist, others view him as a modernist and an advocate for Islamic democracy.
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Azerbaijani philosopher Agalar Mammedov claimed that Jalil Mammadguluzadeh was atheist no definitive evidence exists supporting the claim that Mammadguluzadeh was either an atheist, or a religious liberal or moderate.