According to the observations of various researchers, the mausoleum with its octahedral prismatic volume tapering to the top, and with the parabolic shape of the dome and the elegant chubuk-shaped corner columns was created as a result of the direct imitation of yurts, widespread among the Turks.

Like the inner space, the outer volume of the mausoleum is one whole, the transitional strip between the body and the dome cover is practically absent.

[5] Another interesting feature of the mausoleum is that a rearing figure of a bull, made with a great expression, is inscribed in the tympanum of its decorative lancet arch.

On the sides of the entrance, decorated on both the parts with a ribbon ornament of rosettes, there are also images of bulls, which are somewhat worse preserved.

[6] Both in terms of the space-planning solution and of the artistic design, the mausoleum of Malik Azhdar is a typical monument of Azerbaijani architecture.

Such memorial monuments with octagonal structures without a strongly pronounced vertical orientation are the most widespread in the medieval architecture of Azerbaijan.