Siddiqiy Ajziy

Saidahmad Siddiqiy (also Saidahmadxo'ja ; Cyrillic Саидаҳмад Сиддиқий; and Sayyid Ahmad Siddiqiy ; Russian Саидахмад Сиддики-Аджзи Saidachmad Siddiki-Adschsi * 1864 , † 1927 ) was an early representative of the Central Asian Jadidism . He worked under the pseudonym Ajziy in the literary circle of Mahmudxoʻja Behbudiy in Samarqand .

biography

Siddiqiy came from a modest family. He was orphaned early and then learned the watchmaking trade before he went to Buxoro to study there at a madrasa . After two or three years he broke off this training and then worked in various trades, including as a scribe for Qadis . Like the other Samarqand representatives of Jadidism, Siddiqiy was bilingual ( Persian and Turkish ) and also learned the Russian language from friends .

Siddiqiy sold a piece of land he had inherited from his father in 1901 to do the Hajj . He traveled to Turkey , Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula , where he worked as a translator in the Russian consulate in Jeddah . His return journey took him back to Turkestan via St. Petersburg , Moscow and the Caucasus . At this time he met the leading representatives of Transcaucasian Jadidism in Baku . Inspired by these encounters, he opened a “new method” school in his home village on his return. Along with Is'hoqxon Ibrat , Siddiqiy became the oldest representative of Jadidism. The appeal by the Imam of the Ulugbek Mosque in December 1913 to kill Ajziy for blasphemy shows that his work did not go without resistance .

Siddiqiy later became involved in publishing and opened the Zarafshon bookstore in 1914 . He also worked as a poet, his works have been published in the Turkiston viloyatining gazeti and Behbudiys Oyina ; His most important poems are Anjumani arvoh ("gathering of souls") and Mirʼoti ibrat ("mirror of exhortation"), both of which he wrote in Masnawi- style Persian , both of which were later translated into Turkish and become the standard accusation of Turkestan society should.

In the 1920s he was a central figure in Central Asian education and art.

literature

• Adeeb Khalid : The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform. Jadidism in Central Asia . University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles 1998. ISBN 0-520-21356-4
• Adeeb Khalid: Printing, Publishing, and Reform in Tsarist Central Asia . Int. J. Middle East Stud. 26, 1994; Pp. 187-200