Osman Velizade

[1][2] He was born in the village of Birinci Şıxlı of the Kazakh uezd (county) in the family of the prominent Azerbaijani poet Molla Vali Vidadi.

Having mastered the traditional oriental sciences and the Russian language from his youth he was known as a respected scientist and teacher in the Kazakh, Borchaly and Tbilisi counties.

[4] In December 1847, after the opening of the first Shia madrasa in Tbilisi Mufti Osman Velizade raised the issue of opening a Sunni madrasa with a similar charter before the viceroy Vorontsov, which was carried out in 1848.

Students were exempted from tuition fees and foreigners remained in the boarding house at the madrasah, the school itself was supported by the mosque.

[5] He died in 1847 and was succeeded by his son Muhammed Muftizadeh.