Mujrim Obid

The poet who signed first Mujrim, then Obid, was born around the 1740s in Kumushkent, in the district of Vobkent, near Bukhara; his father, Mirakxo'ja, wrote verse under the name Mirak, and his brother Nazir was a calligrapher. After the village school, he studied at the Mir Arab madrasa in Bukhara. He lived under the emirs Shohmurod, Haydar and Nasrullo, and the second suggested to him the name Obid. He wrote in Turkic and in Persian. Comfortably off in his youth, he knew money troubles and neglect in his last years, and died at around eighty.

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• PoetryDevonMujrim Obid · 1820not translated into EnglishLiterature