Words of Borrowed Ori̇gi̇n i̇n the Work of Mi̇rza Fataly Akhundov's Work "The Story of Monsieur Jordan the Famous Herbali̇st and the Dervi̇sh Mastaly Shah the Witch"

n. "Mirza Fatali Akhundov is such a person who received his due price only in our time. M.F. Akhundov is philosopher, dramatist, public figure, an example of living connection between the culture of his country and the Russian culture." He is the founder of literary criticism in Azerbaijani dramaturgy and literature, the chairman of the Caucasus Archeology Commission, educator, materialist philosopher, public figure. The author of the above opinions is the famous French writer Louis Aragon. M.F. Akhundov is one of the greatest representatives of free thinking in Azerbaijani literature. The plot line of the author's works is made up of the idea of getting rid of outdated village customs, modernizing. Thus, for the first time in the East, the presence of female stage characters along with men in the play caused European writers to pay attention to M.F. Akhundov. In 1851, a year after the work was staged in Petersburg under the title "Monsieur Jordan and the Dervish Mastali Shah", in 1852, the German magazine "Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes" (Magazine of Foreign Literature) praised M.F. Akhundov's innovation in the Muslim East, and called him as Tatars` Molière