[1] Ali Shamil was born on June 5, 1948, in the village of İnəkdağı (now Tretuk), Basargechar District of the Armenian SSR.

His family was settled down in the village of Məmmədalılar (now Qapanlı), Shamkhor District of the Azerbaijan SSR, where he studied in a seven-year school in 1954–57.

After Stalin's death, the family returned to their native village, where he completed his secondary education in İnəkdağı, then in Mets Mazra and Zod.

[4] He was interrogated by the State Security Committee (well-known KGB) for distributing leaflets and photographs of the ADR period.

[1] Ali Shamil is the first researcher of such poets as Almas Ildyrym, Amin Abid Gultekin, Ahiskaly Khasta Gasym, Childirli Ashug Irfani in Azerbaijan.