Mashadi Abdul Muradli ( Azerbaijani: ''Məşədi Əbdül Muradlı''; d. 1844;

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- d. 1900;

) was an Azerbaijani poet and a member of ''Majlisi-Faramushan''.

Life

Mashadi Abdul Muradli was born in 1844 in the city of

. He received a good education in a

Madrasa Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , ), sometimes Romanization of Arabic, romanized as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any Educational institution, type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whet ...

. He was engaged in trade and worked in Petrovsk. He wrote poetry under the pseudonyms ''Shahin'' and ''Rakhzan''. The poet

Mir Mohsun Navvab Mir-Mohsun Navvab () (1833–1918 in Shusha, present day Azerbaijan) occupies a prominent place in the history of Culture of Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani culture as the last representative of the old traditional school of science, arts and literature. ...

writes about him:

One of the good-natured and popular poets of
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is Abdul ibn Husseinali ibn Mashadi Murad. But the late Abdul was known by his mother's name. So called him all the people of Karabakh - Abdul Fatioglu. He was born, and also received education and upbringing in the Shusha fortress. Twenty years ago he moved to Petrovsk and was engaged in trade there. Died a few years ago. He was between fifty-five and sixty years old.

The poet died in 1900 in his native

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* {{Artsakh-stub Year of birth uncertain Year of death missing Azerbaijani poets 19th-century Azerbaijani poets Poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century poets Azerbaijani-language poets People from Shusha