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Fuzûlî
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Fuzûlî

Fużūlī (Azerbaijani: Füzuli فضولی, c. 1494 – 1556) was the pen name of the Azerbaijani, of the Bayat tribes of Oghuz, poet, writer and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Ben Süleyman Baghdadi محمد بن سليمان بغدادی). Often considered one of the greatest contributors to the Dîvân tradition of Azerbaijani literature, Fuzûlî in fact wrote his collected poems (dîvân) in three different languages: in his native Azerbaijani, Arabic and Persian. He was well-versed in both the Ottoman and Chagatai Turkic literary traditions as well as mathematics and astronomy.

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