The tragedy "Bride of Fire" is dedicated to the real events of the 9th century of the commander Babek fight who led the national liberation movement against the Arab-Islamic conquerors.

[2] Initially, the play was called "Babek", but Jafar Jabbarli did not want to limit the ideological and thematic framework of the work to a specific historical event, but sought to give it a broader content.

The Director Alexander Tuganov writes in his memoirs: “The best example of how carefully Jabbarli worked on the creation, how he strove to perfect every word, is the play the "Bride of Fire".

[6] After "Hamlet" (staged in December 1926), the "Bride of Fire" became the first performance, on the preparation of which the Azerbaijan State Theatre spent so much time and work.

[9] In the play the "Bride of Fire", according to the art critic Ismayil Tagi-zade, the protagonist Solmaz is a servant of the fire-worshipers temple and her plot line is only the nominal centre of the work, its main character is Babek.

[10] The theatre critic Jafar Jafarov, calling the work a kind of historical-romantic drama, writes that it has no documented history nor historical figures.