TAK SABIR AS A UNIQUE VOICE IN AZERBAIJANI SATIRICAL PRESS

Abstract

The history of the development of Azerbaijani satirical press occupies a special place both in the enrichment of national journalism in terms of form and content and in the process of raising the level of public consciousness. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the satirical tradition established by Mirza Alakbar Sabir created a significant turning point not only in poetry but also in the overall intellectual framework of national journalism. Sabir’s sharp spirit of social criticism, his exposure of societal flaws through irony, and his reflection of enlightenment ideas in journalistic texts laid an ideological and stylistic foundation for subsequent examples of satirical press. In his poetry, he reinterpreted the confrontation between good and evil, benefit and harm, bravery and cowardice, light and darkness, life and death in a new way–particularly through antagonisms such as those between worker and capitalist, peasant and landlord, subject and ruler, and ideological divisions.