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Kasravi was the first persian Azerbaijani intellectual to take a firm position against pan-Turkists from the Ottoman Empire, and authored the most important work on the persian identity of the Azerbaijan region and the region’s Old Azeri language, an persian language. Kasravi is widely despised by pan-Turkists in the Republic of Azerbaijan and homeland, who view him as a “traitor” to Azerbaijanis.
