Poetry
Subhonqulixon toʻgʻrisida hajviya
Not translated into English
Turdi Faroghiy · 1691
Synopsis
One hundred and sixty-five lines against a king. Since his accession, says the poem, he has driven out the experienced servants who knew how to govern and has surrounded himself with men without competence, of narrow views and little worth. Order has given way to confusion, justice to the hostility of all against all, and the khan's gate has been emptied of those who guarded it. The poet speaks as a man who has served this court and is leaving it.
Context
The poem dates from 1691. Its author, troubled by the quarrels that were tearing the clans apart, had left the court to return to the lands of his own, and it is from there that he writes. The satire alone accounts for one hundred and sixty-five of the lines that survive of his work. Elsewhere, in a ghazal, he calls on the chiefs of the clans, Qipchoq, Khitay, Nayman, to stop belittling one another and to unite. The manuscript, found by Abdulhamid Majidiy, was the subject of his articles in 1924 and 1925, then of a study by Fitrat in 1928; it is kept in Tashkent, at the institute named after Abu Rayhon Beruniy.
Who it is for
In Bukhara Turkic, with no French version. It is better to know that the khanate was then torn apart by the rivalries of the Uzbek clans, and that the author was among the beks of the Yuz clan.
Prizes and reception
Regarded by Uzbek critics as the work that took the satire of its country to a new level after Navoi.
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