MAHAMMED FIZULI

Moulana Mahammad Suleyman oglu Fizuli Baghdadi (born in 1494 in Karbala city, Iraq and died in 1556)- Azerbaijan poet, thinker,writer in Turkish,Arabic and Persian languages. He got early schooling in Karbala and continued it in Baghdad.He lived at Najaf and Hulla cities in Iraq for some time. He studied sciences of middle century (logics,medicine,mathematics and humanitarian sciences), he studied in detail the religious-philosophical trends, greek philosophy through Arabic tranlations, learned classic Arabic,Turkish, Persian and Indian literature.

NIZAMI GANJAVI

Ilyas Yusif oglu Nizami Ganjavi (1141,Ganja - 1209,Ganja) -Azerbaijan poet and thinker. Was born in the artisan family, studied at the schools in Ganja, perfectly learned medieval century sciences by reading, especially, became close familiar with spoken and written literary of Middle East people. He knew turkish, arabic, persian, greece languages as well as ancient greek history and phylosophy, astronomy, medicine and geometry sciences. All his life he lived in Ganja , refused to be a palace poet, lived an earnest life.

NASIMI

Seyid Ali Seyid Mahammed oglu Imameddin Nasimi (1369,Shamakhi-1417,Halab)-Azerbaijani poet, great thinker. He is well-known as ''Imameddin Nasimi ''. He has received his early education in Shamakhi, learned sciences of that time, history of religions,logics, mathematics and astronomy. Nasimi, propaganding mystic views of Hallaj Mansur Huseyn who had been hanged in Bagdad in 10th century, had written his first poems under nick name ''Huseyn''. He has been keeping in touch with Hurufi organizations which were widely spread in Azerbaijan at the end of 14th century.

BAHMANYAR AZERBAIJANI

Abulhasan Bahmanyar Marzban oglu Azerbaijani (date of birth is unknown - died in 1066) -Azeri phylosopher, representative of East Peripateism,student and follower of Ibn Sina .

According to him, wealth in general is the bases of everything on the earth. The wealth is divided by him into absolute which is neccessary and unreaasonable and possible wealth which is result, its presence or absence has one reason - result.

The Mutakallims (muslim orthodox scholasts) were against the denial of time difference between the reason and the result , they thought it was against religion. Bahmanyar's works on some phylosophycal categories have its scientific importance even today.

Mirza Fatali Akhundzade

Mirza Fatali Mirza Mahammedtagi oglu (1812 Shaki - 10.3.1878, Tiflis)- Azerbaijani writer, materialist philosopher, public figure, founder of Azerbaijan dramatic art. In 1814, he, his father Mirza Mahammedtagi and his mother Nana Khanam shifted to Khamna village near Tabriz, he lived in different parts of Iranian Azerbaijan till he was 13. In 1825 he returned to Shaki with his mother.

In 1832, Akhund Haji Alesgar had taken Fatali to Ganja as he wanted him to become a spritual person. Fatali here learned Logic sciences as well as theological sciences from Mirza Shafi Vazeh, famous poet.