Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy

Hamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy was born on 6 March 1889 in Kokand, the son of a well-off and pious apothecary. Trained at the Quranic school and the madrasa, he joined the Jadid reformers and opened new schools, in Tashkent in 1910 and then in Kokand in 1911, for which he wrote reading books. In 1918 he founded a theatre troupe, wrote plays and songs, and joined the communist party in 1920. He waged a campaign against the veil in the Fergana Valley; on 18 March 1929, at Shohimardon, villagers stoned him to death. The regime made him a martyr.

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• PoetryDevoni NihoniyHamza Hakimzoda Niyoziy · 1914not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain