Abdulhuseyn Babayev

Abdulhuseyn Karbalayi Mikayil oghlu Babayev (, 1877 — 1961) was an Azerbaijani carpenter, shabaka artist, Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR.

Biography Abdulhuseyn Babayev was born in 1877 in Baku. After leaving the mollakhana (Muslim religious primary school) where he studied, he started working as an apprentice for 10 years, and learned to make doors and windows and work with glassed gallery. Later, for nearly a decade, he worked for the shipping company Caucasus and Mercury, where he fastened hundreds of wheels.

A. Babayev, who learned how to make a rahil (wooden book stand) at a young age, was able to cut from the simplest tower rahil, to six to eight towered rahil. He tried to innovate in the rahils he made without nails and glue, sometimes cutting two rahils inside each other, and sometimes making a rahil that could be molded into several shapes of eight or more parts. His rahil works are displayed in Azerbaijani museums. His students Asaf Jafarov, Mirzaagha Gafarov, Amil Salamov studied this art and created various shabaka compositions.

Awards Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR — January 5, 1957 Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"