Poetry
Санат дигарасттар
Not translated into English
Moldo Niyaz · 1850
Synopsis
Verses of wisdom and instruction, written in Arabic script by a scholar who travelled the Kyrgyz lands as far as Kashgar, Bukhara and Samarkand. No source gives any detail of them.
Context
These are the first poetic pieces set down in writing in the Kyrgyz language, in the form of small handwritten notebooks. Three of them were found in the twentieth century, the last brought back from the Alai by a researcher, and a fourth manuscript was collected in 1974 by an expedition of the Institute of Language and Literature; all are in the manuscript collection of the Academy of Sciences. A scholar put them in order and published them in 1993, the year in which the poet's native country celebrated the hundred and seventieth anniversary of his birth.
Who it is for
In Kyrgyz, in Arabic script; nothing in French, a Turkish edition since 2023. It is better to know that these verses first circulated by word of mouth, and that they are read only in a late edition.
Prizes and reception
Its author is regarded as one of the very first jazgytch akyns, the bards who wrote, and as the oldest Kyrgyz poet whose autographs have survived.