Abdulla Qodiriy

عبد الله قادري

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† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Uzbek novelist, playwright and poet (1894–1938) from Tashkent, founder of the Uzbek novel with Oʻtgan kunlar (Bygone Days, 1922), who wrote under the pen name Julqunboy and was executed in the Great Purge on 4 October 1938.

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writer · novelist · Poet · playwright · Translator
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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    Life

    Qodiriy was born in Tashkent on 10 April 1894, the son of Qodirbobo, who was 74 at his birth; after menial jobs a merchant hired him as a book copier, and he turned to writing in the mid-1910s 1. The Russian article records that he studied first at a Muslim school in 1904–1906 and then at a Russian-native school 2. He wrote under several pen names, the most renowned being Julqunboy, and his early works were influenced by the Jadid movement 1. He was briefly arrested in 1926 over his article "Yigʻindi gaplar", later protected by the Uzbek party leader Akmal Ikramov, and exposed again by Ikramov's arrest in 1937 1.

    Work and death

    His historical novels Oʻtgan kunlar (Bygone Days, 1922) — the first full-length novel by an Uzbek author — and Mehrobdan chayon (Scorpion in the Pulpit, 1929) made his reputation, alongside satirical stories and plays 1. Arrested again on 31 December 1937 as an enemy of the people, he was executed at Tashkent on 4 October 1938; the Uzbek article states that he was executed together with like-minded colleagues including Choʻlpon and Abdurauf Fitrat 1 3.

    Faith

    No source read names a school or order for Qodiriy: the Uzbek infobox records Islam in general, the English and Russian infoboxes carry no religion field, and Wikidata records no religion value 3 4. His Muslim-school attendance is formation and the Jadid influence on his early work a movement descriptor. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown under the two-source rule.

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    Abdurauf Fitrat

    People and things also explored

    Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy· Sadriddin Ayni· Bukhara· Istanbul· Abdurauf Fitrat

    Sources

    1. Abdulla Qodiriy — English Wikipedia
    2. Abdulla Qodiriy — Russian Wikipedia
    3. Abdulla Qodiriy — Uzbek Wikipedia
    4. Abdulla Qodiriy — Wikidata Q2427335
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    Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy

    Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy (1875–1919) was an Uzbek writer and publisher, a leader of Jadidism in Russian Turkestan, who issued the magazine Ayina and the newspaper Samarkand, wrote the first modern Central Asian play, Padarkush, served as qadi and mufti in Samarkand, and was arrested and executed at Qarshi in 1919.