SARI ASHIK AND MIR SEYYID AKABALI’S DESCENDANTS

Abstract

As the ancient collections of biography do not talk about the art of Ozan-Ashik,the antiquity of creativities cannot reach to the day-to-day like our classicalworks. Sari Ashik is one of the most mysterious ozans, so a lot of conflictinginformation was given about him. The article about Sari Ashik published inthe magazine “Knowledge about Azerbaijani country” in 1934, Istanbul, wasthe first one about Sari Ashik appeared abroad and the third research about theozan after Garadaghi and Salman Mumtaz’s articles published in Azerbaijan.Though more than 80 years passed from the publication of this article, it stilldraws attention as a most distinctive research about the ashik art. This valuablearticle hasn’t been worthily researched by the scholars up to now and the mainreason of it could be the lack of knowledge about the author. The author justhimself reveals the mystery of the article. The author was called Mirzadeh M.Fahreddin. His real name is Mustafa Fahreddin Akabali (1889-1972) and he isMir Mustafa’s grandson, who is Mir Seyyid Hamza Nigari’s cousin. We considerthat this article, which will open the new ways to the scientific discussionsabout Sari Ashik’s real name, especially, the period he lived in, will changethe contradictious opinions on this topic from the standpoint of Mirza MustafaFahreddin’s “Sari Ashik, one of the Azerbaijani ashiks” and Mir Seyyid HamzaNigari’s “Humayu-Arsh” works. We have done our study following the threegenerations of the famous seyyid descendant: Seyyid Muhammad ShemseddinAkabali (Mir Seyyid Hamza Nigari’s great-great-grandfather), Mir SeyyidHamza Nigari and Mirzadeh Mustafa Fahreddin Akabali.

Özet

Eski dönem tezkirecileri Ozan-Âşık sanatından söz etmedikleri için kadim

Keywords: Sarı Âşık, Akabâlî, Mirzâde Mustafa Fahreddin, Mîr Seyyid Hamza Nigârî, Seyyid Muhammed Şemseddin