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5 Manat Fuzuli
| Issuer | Central Bank of Azerbaijan |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 5 Manat |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fuzuli — the pen name of Muhammad bin Suleyman — was a 16th-century poet who wrote simultaneously in Azerbaijani, Persian, and Arabic, an unusual trilingual output that made him central to multiple literary traditions at once. He spent most of his life in Ottoman-controlled Iraq, around Karbala and Najaf, which placed him perpetually at the margins of both Ottoman and Safavid patronage despite being claimed by both cultures.
Azerbaijan has issued multiple commemorative series honoring national cultural figures, with Fuzuli appearing among the earliest and most repeatedly honored subjects — a reflection of how heavily the modern Azerbaijani national identity draws on his Turkic-language verse.