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Kyrgyzstan

Author · Kyrgyzstan

Moldo Niyaz

Died in 1896

Moldo Niyaz was born in 1823 in what is today the Kadamjay district, then the Khanate of Kokand, and died in 1896 under the Russian Empire. Educated in a madrasa in Kashgar, he knew Kyrgyz, Arabic, Persian and Old Turkic Chagatai, and was a mudarris, that is, a master of a Quranic school. His verses were known to an audience ranging from Kyzyl-Suu to At-Bashy, Naryn, Jumgal, Kochkor, Susamyr, the Chuy Valley and the Fergana Valley.

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