Khanbika Khanum (b. 1856,

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Aghdam Aghdam ( az, Ağdam) is a ghost town and the nominal capital of the Aghdam District of Azerbaijan. Founded in the 18th century, it was granted city status in 1828 and grew considerably during the Soviet period. Aghdam lies from Stepanakert at ...

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, 1921) was an Azerbaijani-speaking poet of the

Javanshir clan The Javanshirs ( az, Cavanşirlər; fa, جوانشیران – ''Javānširān'') are a Turkic clan from Karabakh, who belong to the Afshar tribe and are in turn a branch of the Oghuz Turks. Between 1748 and 1822, members of the Javanshir clan ...

Life

She was born in 1856 in the city of Shusha. Researcher Beylar Mammadov claims that her real name was Fatmabika. In 1872, she married Colonel Amanulla Khan, a descendant of Nakhchivan Khans. Akbar Nakhchivanski, her son from this marriage, donated to the museum the figures, the ivory chessman that

Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...

gave to

Khurshidbanu Natavan Khurshidbanu Natavan ( az, خورشیدبانو ناتوان / Xurşidbanu Natəvan; 6 August 1832 – 2 October 1897) was an Azerbaijani poet and philanthropist. She is considered one of the best lyrical poets of Azerbaijan. Her poems are in ei ...

. After the death of Colonel Amanulla Khan (1845-1891), she married the merchant Jabbar Alasgarov.

Family

She belonged to the Karabakh khans on her mother's side, and the Qumuq khans on her father's side. Her father was a Kumyk major-general,

Khasay Khan Utsmiyev Khasay Khan Utsmiyev (, ) was an Imperial Russian general of Kumyk origin. Life and career He was born on 3 April 1808, to Musa Khan Utsmiyev, ethnic Kumyk Prince of Aqsay as his middle son. He had an elder brother named Sultan Murad (d. 184 ...

(1808–1866). Her grandfather Mehdigulu Khan was the last khan of

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura (Caspia ...

. Her mother was an Azerbaijani poet and

philanthropist Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

. Her brother Mehdigulu Khan Vafa was a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Russian Army and authored poetry under pseudonym Vafa (Persian: وفا, lit. 'Loyal'). She died in 1921 and was buried in the

Imarat cemetery The Imarat Garvand cemetery ( az, İmarət Qərvənd qəbristanlığı), or simply as the Imarat cemetery ( az, İmarət qəbristanlığı) is a royal cemetery and a complex located in Aghdam, Azerbaijan. It contains the graves of some of the A ...

, which is the cemetery of the family of Karabakh khans.

Poetry

She started writing poems from childhood under the influence of Mirza Sadiq Sadiq and Mirza Rahim Fena. She mainly wrote

ghazal The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...

s and

rubaʿi Rubāʿī ( fa, رباعی, translit=rubāʿiy, links=; plural: fa, رباعيات, label=none, translit=rubāʿiyāt) or chahārgāna ( fa, چهارگانه, links=no) is the term for a quatrain, a poem or a verse of a poem consisting of four ...

. Khanbika Beyim wrote poems in Azerbaijani Turkish and

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

languages. One of the people who influenced her the most in her poetry is her mother

. Few of her works have been published in the press of that time. The main part of her works was discovered from the archives and published in modern times. Several of her ghazals were published in Vasif Guliyev's book ''The Path to Yesterday''. This book shows that Khanbika was one of the participants of "Majlisi-uns".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Khanum, Khanbika 1856 births 1921 deaths Azerbaijani women poets 19th-century Azerbaijani poets 20th-century Azerbaijani poets Writers from Shusha Poets from the Russian Empire Azerbaijani people of Kumyk descent

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