Abdylla Şabende

Abdylla Şabende lived from 1720 to 1800. He studied at a madrasa in Khiva and was also a musician, a performer of his own works. An author of lyric poems, he composed several dastans, long tales of adventure and love in which the marvellous plays a large part: besides the story of the rose and the nightingale, a tale inspired by the Persian legends of Bahram Gur and another devoted to a khan, Hojamberdi. He is counted among the contemporaries of Andalyp who practised this form.

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• PoetryGül-BilbilAbdylla Şabende · 1800not translated into EnglishLiterature