He was born in Salyan on 13 January 1843 to local cleric Akhund Vali Muhammad and his wife Khanum Aliverdi gizi.

[1] Meanwhile, he met and with Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Mirza Fatali Akhundov and other Azeri intelligentsia who were working and living in Tbilisi as well.

[4] He published a statement alongside Armenian Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimian against massacres in June 1905.

[5] He received news of his daughter Zabita's death which was caused by nervous breakdown because of witnessing massacres while visiting Ganja.

He was replaced by interim Abbasquli Sultan-Huseynbeyov[7] and then succeeded by Mahammad Hasan Movlazadeh Shakavi.