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went through in the early XX century, thus the research conducted at this aspect has potentials of
broad scientific generalization.
Academician Isa Habibbeyli was the first to study Jalil Mammadguluzadeh’s family tree and
presented it to the literary-scientific community. Following the long searches and the survey-
natured contributions to the press, on 25 January 1992 he went to Tehran to meet Mirza Jalil’s
offspring and established contacts with them. Isa Habibbeyli identified that the great writer’s eldest
son Anvar Mammadguluzadeh went to Iran as a doctor within the Soviet army during the World
War II and remained in that country forever by the dictate of fate. The Academician obtained rich
information on the successors of the writer’s family there. The subsequent fate of Jalil
Mammadguluzadeh’s offspring was first presented to the general public by Isa Habibbeyli.
Moreover, the researches on the successors of Jalil Mammadguluzadeh’s family in France and
Poland also belong to Isa Habibbeyli. In 1992 he met the Polish resident Midhat Javanshiri along
with Teymur Javanshiri and Irena Suleymani in Tehran. Isa Habibbeyli’s meeting with Jalil
Mammadguluzadeh’s granddaughter Mehri Khanum Saggatchiya in Paris (1998) enabled him to
further elucidate the family tree. The research “Jalil Mammadguluzadeh’s Family Tree” published
by Isa Habibbeyli following all this was welcomed by the literary community with sympathy. This
is of great importance also as the first scientific research dedicated to the family tree of the writers
in Azerbaijani literary studies.
The most monumental and informative publication of the collection of Jalil
Mammadguluzadeh’s works in the period of state independence is associated with Isa Habibbeyli’s
name. After long searches he discovered the writer’s four-act play “The Husband”, his small scenes
“The Curse” and “The Muggers” and delivered to the readers his 16 satirical poems, 35 articles,
170 topical satires for the first time including them in the outstanding writer’s 4-volume collection
published in 2004. His multi-volume book also includes 60 letters by the great writer and his family
members, 44 letters by the famous personalities as well as his scientific-literary and journalistic
documents and writings hitherto unknown to the scientific community. As a whole, Isa
Habibbeyli’s several publications of the great democratic writer Jalil Mammadguluzadeh’s works
and his writing to them monumental prefaces, interpretations have turned those publications into
sources enriching literary studies as a science.
Besides, Isa Habibbeyli studied the life and legacy of Jalil Mammadguluzadeh’s several
prominent contemporaries more extensively and profoundly and was the first to collect their works
which he published as a book. The book “Mahammad Agha Shahtakhtli. The Selected Works”
(2006) introduced by I.Habibbeyli presents to the readers for the first time this bright personality’s
all-inclusive activities on the basis of new researches and rare documents. Isa Habibbeyli has made
numerous additions to the known researches about Mahammad Agha Shahtakhtli and created a
precise and clear vision of his scientific autobiography. Also, by discovering Mahammad Agha
Shahtakhtli’s numerous articles, draft alphabets, letters, autobiographical documents, rare photos
published in France, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Isa Habibbeyli published them in the book “The
Selected Works” and presented them to the general use. Thus, a generalized scientific vision was
formed about the life full of challenges and the merits of an eminent personality like Mahammad
Agha Shahtakhtli. This is the first major step made in Azerbaijani literary studies to introduce
Mahammad Agha Shahtakhtli together with his rich autobiography, creative activities and works
to scientific-literary community. Taking into account the publication of Mahammad Agha
Shahtakhtli’s only two or three works prior to Isa Habibbeyli, the importance of the presented “The
Selected Works” becomes clear once more.
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Isa Habibbeyli also published the eminent enlightener and poet Mahammad Taghi Sidgi’s
“Works” as a book for the first time in 2004. The textbooks, educative poems, scientific works and
letters included in M.T.Sidgi’s “Works” facilitate the visualization of the author’s all-inclusive
activities as a whole. Being materially new and rich, Isa Habibbeyli’s researches about Mahammad
Taghi Sidgi’s life and creative activities are deep and fundamental from scientific and theoretical
points of view too. The scholar’s articles about this great poet of enlightenment allow the reader to
visualize the complete picture of M.T.Sidgi’s literary-educative merits.
Owing to his long researches, Isa Habibbeyli made serious additions to Eynali Bey Sultanov’s
(1866-1935) autobiography, his educative and literary activities. His researches revealed for the
first time that when studying at Iravan Gymnasium, Eynali Bey Sultanov learnt Russian, French,
Greek, Latin well and did some translations. It was Isa Habibbeyli who identified when Eynali Bey
Sultanov was born, and that he went to Iravan not Tiflis progymnasium, and was promoted to a
responsible position at Iravan Okrug Court. The reasons for Jalil Mammadguluzadeh’s special
attitude to Eynali Bey Sultanov was also elucidated in the researches. And it was Isa Habibbeyli
who proposed theoretical conclusions about Eynali Bey Sultanov as a critic-realist writer and
realist-enlightener at-large. And the first edition of Eynali Bey Sultanov’s journalistic works as a
book in 2016 is also Isa Habibbeyli’s merit.
The book “The Great Literature Giant” published by Isa Habibbeyli on Mammad Said
Ordubadi, the founder of the school of historical novel in Azerbaijani literature animates this
mighty author’s portrait generalized on the basis of modern scientific and theoretical views. In
addition, Isa Habibbeyli presented Mammad Said Ordubadi’s poems included in the books of
poetry “Ignorance”, “Motherland and Liberty” as well as his work “The Two Kids’ Trip to Europe”
to the readers in M.S.Ordubadi’s book titled “My Life and My Environment” published in 2012.
In general, Isa Habibbeyli was the first to speak about the great democratic writer Jalil
Mammadguluzadeh’s tens of contemporaries, discovered hundreds of documents about these
intelligentsia-enlighteners, provided extensive information about them and gave a scientific
interpretation of the essence of their mutual relations. As a whole, Academician Isa Habibbeyli has
created a perfect scientific chronicle of the Molla Nasraddin epoch of Azerbaijani literature.
Academician Isa Habibbeyli follows modern literature and literary process carefully and
graduates them, expresses a scientific opinion about the newly-published works and defines how
much these works are important in our literature. From this viewpoint, he is the fanatic of our
literature in a good sense of the word and its great advocate. The pulse of literature is felt in Isa
Habibbeyli’s writings about literary process. I would say Isa Habibbeyli is an outstanding
researcher-scholar with a universal worldview who has developed on the basis of the traditions of
classical literary critisism, can express a profound scientific opinion about all the periods of
literature and its outstanding representatives on a professional level. The scholar’s researches
dedicated to the lives and creative activities of Nizami Ganjavi, Mahammad Fizuli, Mirza Fatali
Akhundzadeh, Husein Javid, Alibey Huseinzadeh and others are valuable scientific examples of
Azerbaijani literary studies.
The Azerbaijani literature of the 1960s-1970s is characterized as the period of the arrival of a
new galaxy, a new return. Especially, the introduction of the novelties and innovativeness brought
to literature by the 1960s generation of Azerbaijanis holds an important place in Isa Habibbeyli’s
researches. In the examples of the people’s writers Anar, Elchin and Yusif Samadoghlu, people’s
poets Fikrat Goja and Vagif Samadoghlu, he defined the successful artistic fate of the Azerbaijani
literary generation of the sixties and generalized it systematically. In his view, faith in vital truths,
in general, return to human beings, bringing “a common man” and deep moral relations to literature