Muhammad Sharif Gulxaniy

Muhammad Sharif, who signed himself Gulxaniy and also Jur'at, was born in Kokand into a peasant family, whose father came, it is said, from the mountains of present-day Tajikistan. Little is known of his life. He joined the circle of poets that Khan Umar and his wife Nodira gathered at court, and wrote in Turkic as well as in Persian. There remain of his work one Persian qasida and twelve ghazals, seven in Persian and five in Turkic, collected in an anthology compiled at court in 1821. He lived until the 1820s.

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• TaleZarbulmasalMuhammad Sharif Gulxaniy · 1820not translated into EnglishLiterature