Karim agha Shakikhanov (
Azerbaijani: Kərim ağa Şəkixanov, pen-name Fateh) was a poet and historian who wrote in
Azerbaijani and
Persian.
Biography
He was born in 1788 to
Fatali Khan and Khurshid khanum from
Quba in
Shaki,
Shaki Khanate. He received private education in palace, had an excellent command of
Arabic and
Persian languages. He was described as a pious person by
Firidun bey Kocharli and was included in his major academic work entitled Topics on the History of Azerbaijani Literature.[1] He wrote mostly in
Persian and also in his native
Azerbaijani.
Works
Diwan — Now lost. Probably in Persian language.
Ghazal dedicated to Prophet Muhammad.
Ghazal in Azerbaijani.
Brief History of Shaki Khans — written in Azerbaijani, included in
Bernhard Dorn's "Excerpts from Muhammedan writers" in 1858.[2] However he mistakenly attributed the book to some certain Haji Abdullatif Afandi, while Azerbaijani poet
Salman Mumtaz concluded that in fact it was Karim Shakikhanov's work.[3] It was republished in 1958, this time under the name of Karim agha. According to Azerbaijani historian Adalat Tahirzada, book might be commissioned by
Ivan Paskevich - Russian general in Caucasus.[4]
Family
He had 4 sons (Abdulhamid, Mustafa, Ismail, Jafar and Gullu khanum and 1 daughter),[5] some were buried in
Shaki Khan's Mosque:
^Dorn, Boris Andreevich (1858). Auszüge aus Muhammedanischen Schriftstellern: betreffend die Geschichte und Geographie der südlichen Küstenländer des Kaspischen Meeres : nebst einer kurzen Geschichte der Chane von Scheki (in German). St. Peterburg: Eggers. p. 12.
OCLC28162672.
^Mumtaz, Salman (1929). "Criticism and comments on "Brief History of Shaki Khans"". Maarif İşçisi [Enlightenment Worker] (in Azerbaijani). 2: 85–90.
^History of Shaki in Sources. Tahirzadä, Ädalät., Azärbaycan Milli Elmlär Akademiyası. Şäki Regional Elmi Märkäzi. Bakı: Master. 2005. p. 17.
ISBN0976995409.
OCLC64428641.{{
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^BERZHE, A. (2014). AKTY, SOBRANNYE KAVKAZSKOJ ARHEOGRAFICHESKOJ KOMISSIEJ TOM 5 CHAST 1. [S.l.]: BOOK ON DEMAND LTD. p. 1120.
ISBN978-5458678100.
OCLC972599590.