Gurbandurdy Zelili

Gurbandurdy Zelili was born in the village of Garaguzy, in the Gorgan, and lived mostly on the banks of the Etrek; the sources place his birth between 1779 and 1800. He studied at the Şirgazy madrasa in Khiva, then at that of the Gökleň, and became friends there with the poet Seýdi. According to Hüseyin Yıldırım, his mother was a sister or a niece of Magtymguly; taken in 1819 with the inhabitants of Garrygala during a raid by the khan of Khiva, he lived seven years in exile and could escape only in 1826, at the khan's death.

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• PoetryGoşgularGurbandurdy Zelili · 1820not translated into EnglishLiterature