LIFE OF NERIMAN NERIMANOV and HIS VIEW OF WOMEN

Abstract

The first president of Azerbaijan, Nariman Narimanov, was also a revolutionary idealist who struggled for the improvement of society. He supported not only Azerbaijan, where he had lived, but also the Turkic world, especially the Republic of Turkey, and was a staunch Turkish nationalist. He was a prominent figure in increasing Turkey's relations with Azerbaijan and Russia, and in supporting Turkey during the difficult war period. The development of humanity had settled in his inner world as his greatest life goal. For this, he increased people's awareness by holding a mirror to the characteristics of society in his works and sought solutions to these problems. In particular, he believed that society would develop by bringing women to the position they deserved in society. During the time Narimanov lived, women were excluded from the social sphere in Azerbaijan, as in the entire Turkestan region. According to Narimanov, the main reasons for this were the uneducated social structure, the interpretation of religion by the clergy according to their own interests, and the roles assigned to women not within an egalitarian framework but according to their gender, leaving them behind men. Narimanov was a revolutionary who adopted the principles of socialism in his own life. His goals for women were shaped more within the framework of socialism and were tried to be implemented in line with these principles. Narimanov, who frequently touched upon the problems experienced by women in her works, made an effort to show the society the problem and its solution through the main characters in these works. The sociological structure of the period, he lived in was such that women were enslaved, their entire world was shaped by marriage, and they were pushed to the background by society. According to Narimanov, he defended the idea that the solution would be solved by the struggle of women themselves and their inclusion in education and business life.