Peculiarities of Kadi Burhan al-din in medieval Azerbaijani poetry

Abstract

Kadi Burhan al-Din was one of the outstanding representatives of medieval Azerbaijani literature. He was the first poet in literature to write in the genre of tuyugh-classical genre of Turkic poetry. His diwan comprises 1,500 ghazals, 119 tuyughs. Not only individual poems of the poet, but all poetry of Kadi Burhan al-Din is very valuable for the history of Azerbaijan literature. Key words: native language, diwan, tuyugh, poetry, poet, literature, medieval