Mir Jalal Pashayev (Azerbaijani: Mir Cəlal Paşayev; 26 April 1908, Ardabil – 28 September 1978, Baku), known by his literary pen-name Mir Jalal, was an Azerbaijani writer and literary critic. He was the grandfather of Azerbaijan's current First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva. Mir Jalal, who received his degree in education in 1928 in Ganja, two years later studied at Kazan University in Tatarstan, where Lenin once had been a student. Later... see more