PEDAGOGICAL AND ENLIGHTENING ACTIVITY OF MUHAMMAD AGHA SHAHTAKTLY

M. Shahtakhtli was one of the most prominent representatives of enlightenment movement in Azerbaijan during the end of XIX century and the beginning of the twentieth century. Getting European education, studying European cultural life in detail, being acquainted with the richness of the East culture impasted his activity as an enlightenment. His decisive steps in the construction of a new type of schools in Azerbaijan; making textbooks, programs and his speeches related to the reforms in the alphabet, his struggle for the language purity are observed during all his activity. M. Shahtaktli is a researcher who actualized serious explorations as a linguist and pedagogue. Namely with this rich and varied activity, M. Shahtakhtli wrote his name on the history of pedogogical ideas of Azerbaijan pridely.