Zokirjon Furqat

Zokirjon Xolmuhammad o'g'li Furqat ( Cyrillic Зокиржон Холмуҳаммад ўғли Фурқат; Russian Закирджан Фуркат Sakirdschan Furkat ; also Zakir January * 1858 , † 1909 ) was an Uzbek early dschadidistischer late tschagataischer writers and poets from the Fergana Valley .

Life

Furqat's father, the Mulla Xolmuhammad, was just like Furqat himself a poet. Furqat started young the Koran , other religious texts, works of Hafiz , Nawā'i and Fuzuli to read and completed his training at the age of eleven. In his later life he studied Russian literature , translated works from Persian and Russian into Turkic languages, and wrote poetry and a short story. In 1891, at the invitation of Nikolaj Petrovich Ostroumow, he attended a Russian high school and a theater in Tashkent and wrote poetry about it. In the same year he left Turkestan to travel through Istanbul , Greece , Bulgaria , Egypt , Arabia and India and stayed in contact with Ostroumow.

Furqat was fascinated by Russian culture and Western music and called on the Uzbeks to study Russian customs carefully. He was particularly taken with the Russian theater, which - in contrast to the Uzbek folk drama - was not only amusing, but also contained educational elements.

Furqat wrote an autobiography containing essential information about the literary circles of the late 19th century. He made a contribution to the development of Uzbek socialist realism . The Great Soviet Encyclopedia names Furqat, alongside Muqimiy , who was a contemporary and friend of Furqat, Zavqiy , Avaz Oʻtar oʻgʻli and Hamza as an outstanding representative of Uzbek democratic literature.

literature

• Edward Allworth: Uzbek Literary Politics . Mouton & Co .; London, The Hague, Paris 1964.
• Viktor M. Beliaev: Central Asian Music. Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the USSR (Editor: Mark Slobin; translation from Russian by Mark and Greta Slobin). Wesleyan University Press, Middletown 1975. pp. 302–307 (English)
• Adeeb Khalid : The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform. Jadidism in Central Asia . University of California Press; Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1998. ISBN 0520213556