Career
Mahammad Hasan was born in 1854. He received his first religious education at Shaki mollakhane, which he later continued at Ganja Madrasa. After graduation from madrasah he served for a few years as mullah (mosque leaders) of Ganja Jum"a mosque.
He later decided to continue his education and for this purpose traveled to Iraq where he advanced his degree in religion studies.
In 1891 he returned to the Caucasus and published the first joint Hijri and Gregorian calendars in Persian. He later served as Ghazi of Jabrayil, Ganja, Tiflis and Kutaisi regions.
In 1908 in Tiflis he publishes Kitab al-bayan fi tafsir al-Quran - the two-volume edition of Koran"s translation and tafsir (commentary). This work has been re-published in Baku in 1990.
Movlazadeh Mahammad Hasan Ismayil oglu Shakavi died in 1932 in Tbilisi.