Furqat

Zokirjon Xolmuhammad ogli Furqat (Cyrillic Зокиржон Холмуҳаммад ўғли Фурқат; Russian Закирджан Фуркат Sakirdschan Furkat; well Zakir Jan; * 1858, † 1909) was an Uzbek frühdschadidistischer, spättschagataischer writer and lyricist from the Ferghana Valley.

Life

Furqats father, Mulla Xolmuhammad was, as Furqat himself a poet. Furqat started young the Koran, other religious texts, works of Hafiz, Nawā'ī and Fuzuli to read and finished his education at the age of eleven years. In his other life, he studied Russian literature works translated from the Persian and Russian in Turkic languages ​​, and wrote poems and a short story. In 1891 he attended at the invitation of Nikolai Petrovich Ostroumow a Russian gymnasium and a theater in Tashkent and wrote poems. In the same year he left to Turkestan through Istanbul, Greece, Bulgaria, Egypt, Arabia and India to travel and remained in contact with Ostroumow.

Furqat was fascinated by Russian culture and Western music and called the Uzbeks on to to deal exactly with the Russian customs. In particular, he was impressed by the Russian theater, which - in contrast to the Uzbek folk theater - was not only amusing but also harbors instructive elements in it.

Furqat wrote an autobiography, which contains essential information about the literary circles from the late 19th century. He contributed to the development of the Uzbek socialist realism. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia called Furqat next Muqimiy, who was a contemporary and friend Furqats, Zavqiy, Avaz Otar ogli and Hamza as an outstanding representative of the Uzbek democratic literature.