Əbdürrəhim bəy Haqverdiyev - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Heß, Michael R.
Leiden
Brill
(624 words)
Əbdürrəhim bəy Əsəd bəy oğlu Haqverdiyev (17 May 1870 N.S.-11 December 1933) was an influential Azerbaijani playwright, prose writer, translator, stage director, and politician. He was born in Ağbulaq, near Şuşa (Susa), in Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan), and attended public school in Şuşa and Tiflis (Tbilisi). He audited classes in the Oriental Department of St Petersburg University (1891-9) and worked for that city's Muslim Welfare Association (1895-9). In 1901 he settled in Baku. From 1904 to 1905, he worked for the Şuşa