Background
After his father"s death in 1902, Jabbarly"s mother moved to Baku with her four children.
After his father"s death in 1902, Jabbarly"s mother moved to Baku with her four children.
In 1915, Jabbarly graduated from high school and studied electromechanics at Baku Polytechnicum for the next 5 years.
In 1920 he was admitted to Azerbaijan State University to study applied medicine but due to his lack of interest soon switched to Oriental studies. In 1923, he started attending lectures at a local theatre to fulfill his interest in drama. Jafar Jabbarly started writing poems in his early teenage years and was reported to have had his first poems published in the Azeri newspaper Hagigat-i Afkar in 1911.
In the following years, he wrote more than 20 plays, as well as poems, essays, short stories, and articles