Sadriddin Ayni

Sadriddin Aini (. * 15 Apriljul / April 27 1878greg in Saktara, Emirate of Bukhara, . † July 15, 1954 in Dushanbe, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic; Tajik Садриддин Айнӣ, Persian صدرالدين عيني, DMG Sadriddin ʿ Ayni ), also Sadriddin Ayni called or Sadriddin Aini, was a Tajik intellectuals, the manifold was active as a poet, writer, journalist, historian and Lexiograph. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Tajikistan and one of the most important writers in the history of the country.

Life

Sadriddin Aini was born in 1878 in a peasant's hut in the village Saktara, which at that time belonged to the Emirate of Bukhara (now Soktari, Gijduvon district, province of Bukhara, Uzbekistan ). At twelve, he became a full orphans, and went to his older brother in Bukhara, where he attended a madrasa and learned the Arabic script.

In the early 1920s Aini helped to propagate the Russian Revolution in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In 1934 he joined the Soviet author congress at the Tajik representative. By encrypted its national identity in his writings, he was able to fool the Soviet censors, who oppressed many intellectuals in Central Asia. Aini survived the Soviet purges and thus Josef Stalin by one year.

He sat for over 20 years as a member of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan, was awarded the Order of Lenin three times and was the first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. After 1992 his writings assisted in the reconstruction of the Tajik nationalism that had survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Sadriddin Aini revived the Tajik literature in his home again, which was banned during the Emirate by 1927 he published Dochunda ( Дохунда ), the first novel, published in Tajik language. (The first two volumes also German as Bukhara, after the title of the Russian translation Бухара Tajik Ёддоштҳо, Joddoschtho ) as his major work, the four-volume memoirs apply.

His early poems were about love and nature, but after the national awakening in Tajikistan to be subject area changed to the modern and the working class. His writings often criticized while the Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan Said. In German language was published in 1966 by the Berlin publishing culture and progress The death of the usurer ( Margi sudchur ).

Aini died in Dushanbe, where he was a mausoleum was erected in honor. Since 1955, the settlement are Aini ( previously Sachmatabad ) named the same name as well as the surrounding district on the river Zeravshan in today's Tajik province ( Wilojat ) Sughd after him. Sadriddin Aini is mapped to the published in 1999 Tajik Somoni 5 banknote.