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| I worked clock round, sleep not in eye, I’m sleepless, friend Mir Movsoum Navvab (1833-1918) is known as a poet, artist, music historian, astronomer, carpenter, chemist and mathematician. He was born in 1833 in Shusha, where spent all his life. Navvab created first typography in Shusha and in all Azerbaijan. He published the poems of Karabakh poets. Navvab established a second literary society in Azerbaijan called Majlisi Faramushan (Society of the Forgotten) and also established the first music society. Navvab wrote more than 20 books dedicated to various fields of science and arts. He is the author of Vuzuh-ul-Argam (Explanation of the numbers), a significant work which offers 82 mugams and songs, performed in Karabakh at that time. His book Tezkireyi Navvab gives information about one hundred poets and writers of Karabakh. Navvab was also a talented artist. He illustrated his manuscripts with colorful pictures and portraits, and also decorated the interiors of the buildings with various ornaments. |