Hamza Nigari
Hamza Nigari | |
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Mir Həmzə Seyyid Nigari | |
Şirvanlı Mosque Complex, where Hamza is buried | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Hamza c. 1805 |
| Died | 1886 (aged 80–81) |
| Buried | Şirvanlı Mosque complex, Amasya, Turkey |
| Parent | Seyyid Rükneddin Efendi (father) |
| Known for | Sufi poet; founder of the Karabakh branch of the Khalidiyya |
| Other names | Hacı Hamza Nigârî; Seyyid Nigârî; Nigârî-i Karabâğî |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Order | Naqshbandi-Khalidi |
| Teachers | Ismail Sirajuddin Shirvani |
Mir Hamza Seyyid Nigari (Mir Həmzə Seyyid Nigari; c. 1805 – September 1886), widely known by his pen name Nigari, was an Azerbaijani Naqshbandi Sufi sheikh, poet, and mystic of the nineteenth century. Born in the Karabakh region of the Caucasus, he became the most prominent disciple of Ismail Sirajuddin Shirvani in Anatolia and the founder of the Karabakh branch of the Khalidiyya order. He is regarded as one of the most significant mystical poets writing in the Azerbaijani and Persian traditions of his era, and remains venerated in both Azerbaijan and eastern Anatolia to this day.