He is the author of the Vuzuh al-Argam "Explanation of the numbers", a significant work which offers 82 maqams (an original improvisational classical folk music popular in Azerbaijan) and songs performed in Karabakh at that time.

Navvab is also the author of the book Tezkirey-i-Navvab, which gives information about one hundred poets and writers of Karabakh at the time.

He also authored an eyewitness account of Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907 titled Tavārīkh-i razm u shūrish-i ṭāʾifa-yi arāmana bā musalmānān-i Qafqāz "The chronicle of battles and riots of the Armenian people against the Muslims of the Caucasus" around 1906.

He identified Armenian nationalists as the main source of trouble for both sides, nevertheless mostly blaming the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.

He illustrated his manuscripts with colorful pictures and portraits and also decorated the interiors of the buildings with various ornaments.