Akhund Mustafa Talibzadeh

Akhund Mustafa Akhund Suleyman oglu Talibzade was a religious figure, akhund, deputy of the Tiflis ghazi and Sheikh-ul-Islam of Transcaucasia.

Biography Mustafa Talibzade was born in 1842 in Sarvan village, Borchali district. He received his higher religious education at the Haji Safarali Madrasah in Tabriz. In 1871, he received the certificate confirming the full course of religious knowledge completion. Two years after returning from Tabriz to Tiflis, on 12 December 1873, he passed the exam in the Shiite spiritual administration and received the title of akhund. In 1881, he was commissioned to write a Sharia textbook, and on 6 March 1882, he was appointed as member of the Shiite Spiritual Administration. Later he began teaching at the "School of Ali" under the spiritual administration. then as deputy of Sheikh-ul-Islam of Caucasian Muslims Ahmed Salyani.

On 22 April 1900, by the order of Adjutant General Grigory Golitsyn, Akhund Mustafa Talibzade was relieved of his post of member of the spiritual administration and was removed from other official duties.

He died in 1903 and was buried in the Muslim cemetery of Tiflis.

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