Mammetveli Kemine

Mammetveli, who took the nickname Kemine, “the modest”, was born around 1770 in Sarakhs. He studied in a madrasa in Bukhara and, according to some sources, in Khiva. He was linked to the poets Mollanepes, Şabende and Talyby. A satirical poet, he attacked the clergy and the propertied classes in his verse and took the side of the poor. He died in 1840, at about seventy; statues and streets today bear his name or his image.

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• PoetryGoşgularMammetveli Kemine · 1840not translated into EnglishLiterature