Ali Mojuz or Mirza Ali Mojuz Shabestarti ( fa, معجز شبستری-, az, Mirzə Əli Möcüz-میرزا علی معجز) was an

Iranian Azerbaijani Iranian Azerbaijanis (; az, ایران آذربایجانلیلاری, italics=no ), also known as Iranian Azeris, Iranian Turks, Persian Turks or Persian Azerbaijanis, are Iranians of Azerbaijani ethnicity who may speak the Azerbaijani lang ...

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. He chose to write in

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instead of

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, Iran's dominant language. He was born March 29, 1873, in

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, to a merchant family. Mojuz left his birthplace at age 16 after his father's death. He joined his brothers in Istanbul who ran a

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business. He later studied at a school of

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. In 1889, he moved to

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, where he published his first

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. Mojuz returned to his

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in 1905. Under the influence of

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democratic literature, especially

Mirza Alakbar Sabir Mirza Alakbar Sabir ( az, Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir); born Alakbar Zeynalabdin oglu Tahirzadeh (30 May 1862, in Shamakhy – 12 July 1911, in Shamakhy) was an Azerbaijani satirical poet, public figure, philosopher and teacher. He set up a new atti ...

, he wrote satirical poetry. His main themes were the "disempowerment of the people" ("Motherland", "Every Day", etc.), his "struggle against the oppressors" and the "position of enslaved women" ("Unhappy Girl", etc.) Mojuz also praised

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("Lenin"), and was interested in the

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("Revolution breaks out", "Finally", etc.). After the collapse of the government of Azerbaijan, Mohammad Reza Shah's reign over Iran (1941–79) included a very strict ban on the publication of Azeri works. Mojuz turned to writing for recitation to illiterate, rural Azeris. His poetry was first published in 1945. A selection of his works entitled ''Mirzə Əli Möcüz: Seçilmiş Əsərləri'' (''Mirza Ali Mo’juz Selected Works'') in Tabriz. Two thousand copies sold out in “ten to fifteen days."

Works

* Poetry, Baku, 1955 * In Russian. per. - Poems. re. G. Mammadali B., 1956, Proc.: An Anthology of Azerbaijani poetry, v. 2, Moscow, 1960, p. 244-58

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* Omarova LA, Ali Mojuz Shabestarti, "Math. Azerb. SSR ", 1955, № 5 * Omarova L., Ali Mojuz Shabestarti, Baku, 1958. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mojuz, Ali 1873 births People from Shabestar 1934 deaths 20th-century Iranian poets Azerbaijani-language poets 19th-century Iranian poets