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Sharq Yulduzi
''Sharq Yulduzi'' ( uz-Latn-Cyrl, Sharq yulduzi, Шарқ юлдузи; literally, "Star of the East") is an Uzbek-language literary, artistic and social magazine. Founded in 1932, its frequency publication has varied from monthly to quarterly. The contents of the magazine mainly focus on Uzbek art and literature, and many prominent Uzbek writers, including Abdulla Qahhor, Maqsud Shayxzoda, Mirmuhsin, Musa Tashmukhamedov, Uyg‘un, Zulfiya, and Gʻafur Gʻulom have contributed to the magazine. ''Sharq Yulduzi'' is also known for serializing the first complete Uzbek translation of the Quran by Alouddin Mansur from March 1990 to February 1992, with issue 8/9 in 1992 solely featuring a complete translation of the Quran. History The magazine was founded by the Writer's Union of Uzbekistan and originally published under the title ''Oʻzbekiston Shoʻro Adabiyoti'' starting in 1932, then became ''Sovet Adabiyoti'' in January 1935 before being renamed to ''Oʻzbekiston Adabiyoti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tashkent
Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. It is located in northeastern Uzbekistan, near the border with Kazakhstan. Before the influence of Islam in the mid-8th century AD, Sogdian people, Sogdian and Turkic people, Turkic culture was predominant. After Genghis Khan destroyed the city in 1219, it was rebuilt and profited from its location on the Silk Road. From the 18th to the 19th centuries, the city became an Tashkent (1784), independent city-state, before being re-conquered by the Khanate of Kokand. In 1865, Tashkent fell to the Russian Empire; as a result, it became the capital of Russian Turkestan. In Soviet Union, Soviet times, it witnessed major growth and demographic changes due to Population transfer in the Soviet Union, forced deportations from throughout the Soviet Unio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uzbek Language
Uzbek is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. It is the official and national language of Uzbekistan and formally succeeded Chagatai, an earlier Karluk language endonymically called or , as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 1920s. According to the Joshua Project, Southern Uzbek and Standard Uzbek are spoken as a native language by more than 34 million people around the world, making Uzbek the second-most widely spoken Turkic language after Turkish. There are about 36 million Uzbeks around the world, and the reason why the number of speakers of the Uzbek language is greater than that of ethnic Uzbeks themselves is because many other ethnic groups such as Tajiks, Kazakhs, Russians who live in Uzbekistan speak Uzbek as their second language. There are two major variants of the Uzbek language: Northern Uzbek, or simply "Uzbek", spoken in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and China; and Southern Uzbek, spoken in Afghanistan and Paki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdulla Qahhor
Abdulla Qahhor (September 17, 1907 – May 24, 1968) was a Soviet and Uzbek novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator. He is best remembered as the author of the 1951 novel ''Qoʻshchinor chiroqlari'' (''The Lights of Qoʻshchinor'') and the 1958 novella ''Sinchalak''. Qahhor is considered to be one of the best Uzbek writers of the 20th century, and has been called the "Chekhov" of Uzbeks. He received the prestigious Stalin Prize in 1952, and became a National Writer of the Uzbek SSR in 1967. In 2000, Qahhor was posthumously awarded the Order of Outstanding Merit (), one of independent Uzbekistan's most prestigious awards. Life Abdulla Qahhor was born on 17 September 1907 in Kokand. According to some sources, his father was a blacksmith. According to other sources, his father was a shoemaker, or, alternatively, his family were farmers. In 1930, Qahhor entered the pedagogical faculty of Central Asia State University, graduating in 1934. He became a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maqsud Shayxzoda
Maqsud Shayxzoda ( Azerbaijani: Maqsud Şeyxzadə, Uzbek: Maqsud Shayxzoda; 7 November 1908 — 19 February 19, 1967, in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR) was a Soviet-Uzbek poet of Azerbaijani Turk origin. He is considered one of the founders of modern Uzbek literature. He was the brother of Fuad Shikhiev and hailed from the village of Yukhari Salahli in the Qazakh district, although he was born in Aghdash. In 1925, Maqsud Shayxzoda graduated from the Darulmuallim School in Baku. He initially worked as a teacher in a first-degree Azerbaijani school in Derbent and later taught at the Buynaksk Pedagogical and Educational Technical School. In 1927, he was arrested for alleged membership in a counter-revolutionary organization and was exiled to Tashkent in February 1928. Shayxzoda briefly studied at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Central Asian University (1928), later working at the editorial offices of ''Sharq Haqiqati'' (1929–32), Qizil Uzbekistan and ''Yosh Leninchi'' newspapers (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirmuhsin
Mirmuhsin Mirsaidov (3 May 1921 – 3 February 2005) was a Soviet and Uzbek poet and prose writer. Personal life Born into a poor potter's family, he began to write poetry in 1936. In 1941 he graduated from the philological faculty of Tashkent University, and in 1946 joined the CPSU. In 1950 he was appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine ''Shark Yulduzi'' ("Star of the East"), holding this post until 1960 and then re-occupying it in 1971. He also collaborated in the magazines "Mushtum" and "Gulistan". He was awarded three orders and medals: In 1968 he was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Culture of the Uzbek SSR, in 1974 he was awarded the State Hamza Prize of the Uzbek SSR, and finally in 1981 he became a People's Writer of Uzbekistan. Major works Collections of poems Fatherland (1942), Fidelity (1945), Fergana (1949), Compatriots (1953), Guests (1954), Heart and Philosophy (1963) and others, a poem about Soviet cotton growers "Usta Giyas" (1947) and "Green kishlak" (194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musa Tashmukhamedov
Muso Toshmuhammad oʻgʻli (Russified form Musa Tashmukhamedov) ( uz-Latn-Cyrl, Muso Toshmuhammad oʻgʻli, Мусо Тошмуҳаммад ўғли) (January 10, 1905 – July 1, 1968), known by the pen name Oybek, was an Uzbek, Soviet writer, poet and translator. He was a People's Writer of the Uzbek SSR (1965), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1943), recipient of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946), member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (since 1948). He was also a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 5th and 6th convocations. Biography Muso Toshmuhammad oʻgʻli was born on December 28, 1904 (January 10, 1905) in Tashkent in a poor family of a weaver, who constantly roamed with his goods in the steppe and mountainous villages of the then Russian Turkestan. Sometimes his father took his son with him. The very impressionable and thoughtful boy listened to different stories and fairy tales with great pleasure. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zulfiya (poet)
Zulfiya Isroilova, known by her pen name Zulfiya (in Cyrillic '; 1 March 1915 in Tashkent, Russian Empire – 1 August 1996 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) was a Soviet and Uzbek writer. She repeatedly was a leader or chief editor for various media, participating in Soviet delegations to various conferences. The Uzbek National Award for Women was created and named after her. Early life Her name Zulfiya originates from the Persian word ''zulf'' meaning 'a curl of hair' and '(in a mystic sense) the divine mysteries forming the delight of the devotee'. Zulfiya was born in Mahallah Dergez, near Tashkent to a family of craftsmen. Her parents were very interested in culture and literature. Her mother used to sing her popular songs and tales. Career Her first poem was published 17 July 1931 in the Uzbek newspaper ''Ishchi'' (The Worker). Her first collection of poetry (''Hayot varaqlari'', "Pages of Life") was published in 1932. In the following decades she wrote patriotic works as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gʻafur Gʻulom
Gʻafur Gʻulom (May 10, 1903 – July 10, 1966) was an Uzbek poet, writer, and literary translator. He is best remembered for his stories ''Shum Bola'' (''The Mischievous Boy'') (adapted for film in 1977) and ''Yodgor''. Gʻafur Gʻulom is also known for translating the works of many influential foreign authors, such as Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and William Shakespeare. He translated '' Le Mariage de Figaro'' of Pierre Beaumarchais, ''Othello'' of William Shakespeare, and ''Gulistan'' of Saadi Shirazi into Uzbek. Gʻafur Gʻulom is considered to be one of the most influential Uzbek writers of the 20th century. He is also regarded as one of the founders of modern Uzbek poetry, along with Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy. Gʻafur Gʻulom received the prestigious State Stalin Prize in 1946 and became a National Poet of the Uzbek SSR in 1963. Life Gʻafur Gʻulomovich Gʻulomov was born to a poor family on May 10, 1903, in Tashkent. His father, Gʻulom Mirza Orif, knew Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Encyclopedia Of Uzbekistan
The ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan'' () is a general-knowledge encyclopedia written in Uzbek language, Uzbek. The majority of the articles in the ''National Encyclopedia'' were directly taken from the ''Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia''. While the ''Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia'' was published in 14 volumes, the ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan'' has only 12 volumes. The first volume of the ''National Encyclopedia'' was published in 2000. The final 12th volume was published in 2006. History The ''National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan'' was published in Tashkent from 2000 to 2005 by the National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan State Scientific Publishing House. The encyclopedia was printed in Cyrillic even though it was published long after Uzbekistan introduced the Latin script to Uzbek. In 2013, all of the articles of the ''National Encyclopedia'' were added to the Uzbek Wikipedia with the help of a Wikipedia bots, bot. In 2022, the Agency of Information and Mass Communications unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quran
The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic literature, and has significantly influenced the Arabic, Arabic language. It is the object of a modern field of academic research known as Quranic studies. Muslims believe the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final Islamic Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad through the Angel#Islam, angel Gabriel#Islam, Gabriel incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on the Night of Power, Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death. Muslims regard the Quran as Muhammad's most important Islamic view of miracles, miracle, a proof of his prophet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
