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Our national values.
Azerbaijan people are known with their rich national-moral values and traditions all across the world. Although our people have experienced various socio-political formations, they have preserved their moral values and approached them as the most precious wealth.
National-moral values play an important role in the formation of public opinion and ensuring civil solidarity. The people of Azerbaijan have preserved their national-moral values and been loyal to those values even in the most turbulent periods in history. Our national-moral values have passed a certain path of development despite the prohibitions by the ruling ideology in the former Soviet Union.
National-moral values of our people have got an ancient history. Qualities such as respect for the family, love to motherland, hospitality, helping others, respect for different religious beliefs are promoted in Azerbaijan folklore (Azerbaijan folk poetry). İdeas regarding with national-moral values are put forward in proverbs, bayatis, epos, narratives and other genres. The Book of Dada Gorgud (Kitabi-Dada Qorqud), the brilliant folklore monument of Azerbaijan reflects the rich historical, cultural, national-moral values, beliefs, lifestyle of our people and its characters as well. Preserving national traditions, the matters of bringing up young people who love their homeland and are brave in the fight against enemy were widely highlighted in the epos.
Good family relations are glorified, the strength and power of the people are shown to be invincible as a result of the strength of the family and the steady increase of the generation in the book. The words by elderly person are exalted in the book, Oguz warriors (heros) seek his advice before trip or battle. The gopuz (ancient musical instrument in the epic) is considered as means of creating a heroic spirit in the epic "Kitabi Dada Gorgud" and respect for it is a national-ethnic tradition. National-moral values found their artistic and aesthetic, philosophical expression in the ancient period of Azerbaijan literature, art and philosophy, loyalty to the homeland and traditions was expressed with figurative and poetic way.
Humanistic and universal values were a key point in the literary creativity of prominent figures of Azerbaijani classical literature and respect for national-moral values were associated with the tolerant lifestyle of our people. Ancient and medieval literary, philosophical and artistic works are rich with multicultural views, ideas that reject racial, national and religious discrimination, and call people to unity and humanism.
The importance of national-moral values of our people was widely illustrated in the socio-political opinions of the 19th century Azerbaijani enlighteners. Although the concept of Azerbaijanism that used as a national idea was mainly utilized in the sense of patriotism, its scientific-theoretical and practical bases had not yet been formed.
The enlighteners considered Azerbaijanism as a value that envisages the development of the native language, national-historical heritage and moral values and inspires a sense of patriotism in people
. Our progressive intellectuals were making speeches addressing to new political demands and was putting forward the idea of state independence under the influence of socio-political conditions at that time. In 1918, the ideology of Azerbaijanism found its historical embodiment and confirmation with the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the first democratic parliamentary and secular republic in the East. However, the prohibitions by communist ideology and the policy pursued by the former USSR in the area of national relations began to suppress the idea of Azerbaijanism following the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan.
Protection and development of national and moral values are one of the major directions of state policy due to its important role in the development of Azerbaijan people, its contribution to the enrichment of world culture, and its communicative function in ensuring civil solidarity.
Significant steps were taken to enrich our national-moral values and a new stage was opened for the improvement in artistic heritage, culture, art and national language of the people under the leadership of National Leader Heydar Aliyev in Azerbaijan during the Soviet period. The sense of national self-consciousness was strengthened, views on the national identity and thought were formed in the Republic of Azerbaijan.