Mir Hamza Nigari

Mir Hamza Seyyid Nigari, widely known by his pen name Nigari, was an Azerbaijani Naqshbandi Sufi sheikh, poet, and mystic of the nineteenth century. Born in the Karabakh region of the Caucasus, he became the most prominent disciple of Ismail Sirajuddin Shirvani in Anatolia and the founder of the Karabakh branch of the Khalidiyya order. He is regarded as one of the most significant mystical poets writing in the Azerbaijani and Persian traditions of his era, and remains venerated in both Azerbaijan and eastern Anatolia to this day.