Furqat

Zokirjon Xolmuhammad o'g'li, who signed himself Furqat, was born in 1859 in Kokand. Having entered the madrasa at fourteen, he learned Arabic and Persian there, then left to help an uncle who was a merchant in Margilan, where he opened his own shop. Returning to marry in his own city in the early 1880s, he went to Tashkent in 1889 and from 1890 worked at the governorate's newspaper, where he defended the school and the sciences coming from Europe. He left in 1891, passed through Istanbul, Mecca, India and Tibet, settled in Yarkand, sold medicinal plants there and died there in 1909.

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• NarrativeSarguzashtnomaFurqat · 1891not translated into EnglishLiterature