“He possessed great erudition and piety, had a tranquil disposition, and a calm and benignant temper.”

“To common people, impressed by his learning, erudition and experience, all this looks puzzling.”

“For all the vast erudition which so impressed his contemporaries, he wrote disappointingly little.”

“He contributed to the diffusion of Azerbaijan culture by his own creations and by his eruditeness and was one of the most acknowledged intellectuals in the East.”

“I wonder if it has been important to him to show off his eruditeness, an intellectual chip exorcised from his shoulder and springing from a childhood absent from books.”