Abstract:

The capital of Georgia has long been one of the centers of the Islamic-Turkish civilization, where the literary traditions of the Turkic-speaking people's ashug poetry were widely spread as a peculiar phenomenon, development of the traditions of the Turkic-speaking ashug art in a unique and original style was observed until the first quarter of the 20th century. The Turkic-speaking ashug traditions also had a significant impact on local Georgian and Armenian cultures. In Tbilisi, along with Azerbaijani ashugs, Georgian mgosans, Armenian kusans (folk singers) composed poems and sang songs in the Turkish-Azerbaijani language. Ietim Dabghishvili was one of the Georgian popular mgo-ashugs of Tbilisi, who was known with the pen name Ietim Gurji (orphan Georgian). Sincere poetry, melodies of this beloved national poet-singer enjoyed great sympathy in the urban literary and musical environment, which composed poems and sang songs in Azerbaijani. The purpose of this article is to more closely represent Ietim Gurji to the scientific and literary community of Turkey. Proceeding from this, the present article explores the peculiarity of the Tbilisi city ashug environment, it is about the life and work of Ietim Gurji, and the translations of the samples from the poems of the poet appear.

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