Recognition five and a half centuries later

Abstract

Article investigated that composition of the Azerbaijani (Turkic) scientist of the XV century Mahmoud Hynalugi “Events in Dagestan and Shirvan the XIV -XV centuries” was for the first time reported by A. Berger (1828-1886), however the fact of detection of this manuscript until the end of the XX century didn’t draw nobody’s attention. The prominent scientist-orientalist professor A.R.Shikhsaidov translated the first the manuscript of this composition from the Arabic language into Russian and having written to it the preface and having supplied with extensive comments and notes, published in the form of the book (Makhachkala, 1997, 208 pages) then M. Hynalugi’s composition was included in a scientific turn. Since the middle of the VII century and till the XVI century writers and scientists of the Turkic people created the works generally in the Arabic language and on Farsi. Among them were both the Azerbaijani writers and the scientists got an education and working in Tabriz, Istanbul, Bukhara, Tashkent, Herat, Samarkand, Baghdad and other cities of the East. Widely used these two called languages as well writers – natives of the wellknown Azerbaijani village Hynalyg which ancient history totals neither a little, nor many four thousand years.