Abdulla Shaig , born Abdulla Mustafa oglu Talibzadeh, was an Azerbaijani writer
Background
Shaig was born to Marneuli-native Azerbaijani parents, Mustafa Talibzadeh and Mehri Bayramli. His father was an akhoond at the Caucasus Muslim Clerical Board, who taught Islamic law, Persian and Arabic at a secondary school in Tbilisi (then Tiflis).
Education
In 1883, due to a strained relationship with her husband, Shaig"s mother moved with her two sons and a daughter to Khorasan (Iran), where Abdulla Shaig later attended a school.
Career
As a teenager, he wrote ghazals and translated a number of pieces from the Russian literature into Persian. In 1901, at the age of 20, he permanently settled in Baku and passed an examination at the First Alexandrian Gymnasium becoming a certified teacher. He worked in the field of public education for the next 33 years.