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Tajikistan’s National Epics: Muqanna's Rebellion and The Tajik People's Hero Temur Malik
Sadriddin Ayni (1878–1954) was a Tajik intellectual, regarded by many as one of the most important writers in the country’s history. This book provides a translation of two historical monographs by Is’yoni Muqanna (Muqanna’s Rebellion) and Qahramoni Khalqi Tojik Temurmalik (The Tajik People’s Hero Temur Malik). These works tell the story of two great Tajik heroes who fought against the Arabs and the Mongols. Besides the translations, the book discusses Ayni’s life and work, highlighting his role, especially through these two monographs, in awakening and strengthening Tajik national consciousness. In addition, the book provides detailed background information on the historical events portrayed in the epics.
289 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 22, 2023
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Sadriddin Ayni
18 books15 followersSadriddin Said-Murodzoda. He was an outstanding writer in Tajikistan. With his "March of Freedom", composed on the world-famous motif of the "Marseillaise" in 1918, the history of Soviet Tajik literature begins.
Sadriddin Aini was born in the village of Soktar, Gijduvan fog of the Bukhara Khanate (now Gizhduvan district: Bukhara region of the Uzbek SSR) into a dekhkan family. His father, a great lover of poetry, managed to plunge, into the soul of the future writer, who was just beginning to master reading and writing, a love of literature and knowledge. His mother came from the village of Mahalai Bolo, Shafirkan fog (now the Bukhara region of the Republic of Uzbekistan). In 1890, during a cholera epidemic, father and mother die almost simultaneously. Sadriddin leaves his native village in Bukhara (September 1890), and the madrasah, a religious institution traditional for Muslim countries, enters, as it were, combining high school and high school. While studying in a madrasah, he earns a living by washing, serving in rich houses, cleaning, student cells.
Aini was closely acquainted with prominent Bukhara intellectuals: Sadri Ziyo, Damullah Ikramcha and others.
Aini’s life was changed not by the Russian state as such, but by the Russian Jadids-Tatars, whose community arose both in Bukhara and in its railway station New Bukhara (Kagan ) Sadriddin Aini was a member of the Jadid Enlightenment movement. He embarks on the path of enlightenment - takes an active part in organizing the first new method schools for Tajik children in Bukhara, writes textbooks, poems, and stories for them, arguing in favor of secular knowledge as a counter to religious Muslim theology.
The persecution of the authorities forced S. Aini in 1915-1916. hiding outside Bukhara. He has been working as a weigher for about a year at a ginnery in Kizil Tepp. In April 1917, during a rampant reaction caused by the provocative Jadid manifestation in honor of the hefty reforms announced by the emir, S. Aini was punished with 75 stick strikes and thrown into prison. Together with other political prisoners, he was released from prison by Russian revolutionary soldiers, and after almost two months of treatment at the hospital in Kagan, he moved permanently to Samarkand. In 1918, the emir of revenge executed his younger brother S. Aini.
Since 1918, he unequivocally sided with the opponents of the emir regime, and together with the left wing of the Jadids of Young Bukhara he drifted towards the Bolsheviks. In 1920, he supported the revolution in the emirate and the creation of the Bukhara people's Soviet republic.
On June 15, 1926, Aini became a literary employee of the Tajik State Publishing House, an office opened in Samarkand. There were no other literary employees in it then.
Some time after the creation of the Bukhara People’s Republic, he was elected a member of the CEC of the republic, and after the creation of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, he worked for several years in the Tajik office in Samarkand, in the Samarkand branch of the Tajik state publishing house. With the creation of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in 1929, he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Tajik SSR.
In 1934, at the I All-Union Congress of Writers, he was also elected a member of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
S. Aini was repeatedly elected deputy of the Dushanbe and Samarkand city councils, twice (1937, 1947) as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR.
In 1940, S. Aini was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the Tajik SSR for great services in the field of literary studies. In 1943, he was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, and later he was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the Uzbek SSR. In 1949, the Academic Council of Leningrad State University.
Sadriddin Aini was born in the village of Soktar, Gijduvan fog of the Bukhara Khanate (now Gizhduvan district: Bukhara region of the Uzbek SSR) into a dekhkan family. His father, a great lover of poetry, managed to plunge, into the soul of the future writer, who was just beginning to master reading and writing, a love of literature and knowledge. His mother came from the village of Mahalai Bolo, Shafirkan fog (now the Bukhara region of the Republic of Uzbekistan). In 1890, during a cholera epidemic, father and mother die almost simultaneously. Sadriddin leaves his native village in Bukhara (September 1890), and the madrasah, a religious institution traditional for Muslim countries, enters, as it were, combining high school and high school. While studying in a madrasah, he earns a living by washing, serving in rich houses, cleaning, student cells.
Aini was closely acquainted with prominent Bukhara intellectuals: Sadri Ziyo, Damullah Ikramcha and others.
Aini’s life was changed not by the Russian state as such, but by the Russian Jadids-Tatars, whose community arose both in Bukhara and in its railway station New Bukhara (Kagan ) Sadriddin Aini was a member of the Jadid Enlightenment movement. He embarks on the path of enlightenment - takes an active part in organizing the first new method schools for Tajik children in Bukhara, writes textbooks, poems, and stories for them, arguing in favor of secular knowledge as a counter to religious Muslim theology.
The persecution of the authorities forced S. Aini in 1915-1916. hiding outside Bukhara. He has been working as a weigher for about a year at a ginnery in Kizil Tepp. In April 1917, during a rampant reaction caused by the provocative Jadid manifestation in honor of the hefty reforms announced by the emir, S. Aini was punished with 75 stick strikes and thrown into prison. Together with other political prisoners, he was released from prison by Russian revolutionary soldiers, and after almost two months of treatment at the hospital in Kagan, he moved permanently to Samarkand. In 1918, the emir of revenge executed his younger brother S. Aini.
Since 1918, he unequivocally sided with the opponents of the emir regime, and together with the left wing of the Jadids of Young Bukhara he drifted towards the Bolsheviks. In 1920, he supported the revolution in the emirate and the creation of the Bukhara people's Soviet republic.
On June 15, 1926, Aini became a literary employee of the Tajik State Publishing House, an office opened in Samarkand. There were no other literary employees in it then.
Some time after the creation of the Bukhara People’s Republic, he was elected a member of the CEC of the republic, and after the creation of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, he worked for several years in the Tajik office in Samarkand, in the Samarkand branch of the Tajik state publishing house. With the creation of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in 1929, he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Tajik SSR.
In 1934, at the I All-Union Congress of Writers, he was also elected a member of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
S. Aini was repeatedly elected deputy of the Dushanbe and Samarkand city councils, twice (1937, 1947) as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR.
In 1940, S. Aini was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the Tajik SSR for great services in the field of literary studies. In 1943, he was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, and later he was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the Uzbek SSR. In 1949, the Academic Council of Leningrad State University.
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