Molla Panah Vagif
Molla Panah Vagif | |
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Molla Pənah Vaqif | |
Azerbaijani stamp with Molla Panah Vagif | |
| Vizier of Karabakh Khanate | |
| In office 1769–1797 | |
| Appointed by | Ibrahim Khalil Khan |
| Succeeded by | Mirza Jamal Javanshir |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1717 |
| Died | 1797 (aged 79–80) |
| Resting place | Vagif Mausoleum |
| Occupation | Poet |
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Molla Panah (Azerbaijani: Molla Pənah), better known by his pen-name Vagif (Arabic: واقِف, lit. 'The Learned One'), was an 18th-century Azerbaijani poet, statesman and diplomat. He is regarded as the founder of the realism genre and the modern school in Azerbaijani poetry. He served as the vizier—the minister of foreign affairs—of the Karabakh Khanate during the reign of Ibrahim Khalil Khan.