Magtymguly Pyragy

Magtymguly was born around 1724 in Hajji Qushan, a Turkmen village in what is now northern Iran. The son of the poet Döwletmämmet Azady, who first taught him, he learned several trades as a child, including goldsmithing, then studied at the madrasa of Idris Baba, at that of Gögeldaş, in Bukhara, and completed his training at the Şirgazy madrasa in Khiva. He took the pen name Pyragy, “the separated”. He travelled widely outside his country, died in 1807 and was buried near his father, at Aktokaý.

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• PoetrySongs from the Steppes of Central AsiaDiwanMagtymguly Pyragy · 1770Literature