Yusuf Khass Hajib

Yusuf Khass Hajib was born around 1019 in Balasagun, the winter capital of the Karakhanids, near present-day Tokmok, in Kyrgyzstan. He was about fifty when he completed his poem, begun in his native city and finished in Kashgar in 1069 or 1070; the prince of Kashgar, to whom he offered it, gave him the title of privy chamberlain, Khass Hajib, from which he took his name. He died in Kashgar in 1077 (in 1085 according to Eurasianet). Yakub Beg raised a mausoleum to him in 1865, destroyed in 1972 and then rebuilt.

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