Western Azerbaijan Community

Abbas Mammadzadeh was born around 1864 in a merchant family. He studied Persian in Isfahan and studied at a madrasa in Iravan. In 1881, he taught Arabic and Persian languages at the teacher’s seminary opened in Iravan. He was called Fars Abbas because he knew the Persian language perfectly. In 1912, the “Guldaste” textbook was printed in Persian language at the “Orujov brothers” printing house in Baku. In 1913, his textbooks “Badrgatul-Aftal” (“Gift for children”) and “Persian language tutorial for Russians ” were published simultaneously in Baku, Tiflis and Iravan. During the massacres in Iravan in 1918, he took refuge in Tabriz and died there a year later.