Poetry
Devon
Not translated into English
Mujrim Obid · 1820
Synopsis
The Turkic divan of a poet of Bukhara, which he put in order in his old age. The love ghazals stand alongside satire: time without justice, tyranny, the faithlessness of men, the hypocrisy of sheikhs. Other pieces express his sorrow and lament. The poet also embroiders five-line stanzas on seven ghazals by Navoi and on verses by Bedil, and a poem of forty-nine couplets sets out his own condition, the hardship and loneliness of his old age.
Context
The first pen name means the guilty one, the second the worshipper. Three manuscript divans are kept in the holdings of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan: two in Turkic, the most complete of which was put in order in the poet's old age, and one in Persian. In his preface, he says he follows the example of Navoi in composing his collection. His era, according to studies, saw the letters of Bukhara deprived of circles and patrons. The date of composition of the divan is not known.
Who it is for
In Bukhara Turkic, with no French version. It helps to know that some of the pieces take up verses by Navoi and Bedil in order to extend them.
Prizes and reception
His selected ghazals appeared in Tashkent in 1960, and two theses have been devoted to him in Uzbekistan, in 1975 and in 2002.