Shermuhammad Munis

Shermuhammad Munis was born in 1778 in the village of Qiyot, near Khiva, the son of a court water master, into an Uzbek family of dignitaries. Secretary for edicts from 1800, he became chief water master in 1806, a post that also took him on the ruler's campaigns. The khan entrusted him with the history of the dynasty, which his nephew Ogahiy completed after him. He translated a great universal chronicle from Persian and wrote a writing manual in verse. He died of cholera in 1829, on his return from a campaign in Khorasan, at the age of fifty-one.

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• PoetryMunis ul-ushshoqShermuhammad Munis · 1814not translated into EnglishLiterature