Musa Chaghatay uulu
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Musa Chaghatay uulu was an early-twentieth century Kyrgyz poet. Though little is known about his life, his work, surviving in Soviet era manuscripts and post-Soviet editions, illuminates pre-Soviet Kyrgyz society.
One manuscript,[1] in Arabic script, is titled the 'Shabdan Baatır Codex' by its recent editor Daniel Prior.[2] The volume 'went unnoticed in the literature'[3] until a published Cyrillic transliteration appeared in 2002,[4] and, later, into Latin (with English translation).[5]
Another manuscript contains a poem in Arabic script titled 'Qırghın' ('Slaughter')[6] concerned with the events of 1916. The poem has been described as
a remarkable account of the revolt from the Kyrgyz perspective, testifying to the damaging effects of wartime requisitions and the fear produced by the conscription decree, and with detailed descriptions of events – such as the capture of a load of Russian rifles in the Boom gorge – which were turning points of the rebellion[7]
The poem survives in a manuscript copied by the Bashkir folklorist Kayum Miftakov in 1928. Though the poem also exists in typescript (with seemingly ideological emendations), it was not published until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The poem was included in a post-Soviet compilation of poetry connected to the revolt,[8] and re-edited, and translated into English, in a volume concerned with the Central Asian Revolt.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Шабдан жамагы. Кененсары кысасы". manuscript.bizdin.kg.
- ^ Prior, Daniel (2012). The Sabdan Baatir codex : epic and the writing of northern Kirghiz history : edition, translation and interpretations, with a facsimile of the unique manuscript. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-23040-8.
- ^ Prior, Daniel (2008-06-28). "Heroes, Chieftains, and the Roots of Kirghiz Nationalism". Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 6 (2): 71–88 (p. 79). doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2006.tb00150.x.
- ^ Акматалиев, А., ed. (2002). Алп Тобоок. Шабдан казалы. Жети эрдин өлүмү. Бишкек: Шам.
- ^ Prior, Daniel (2012). The Sabdan Baatir codex : epic and the writing of northern Kirghiz history : edition, translation and interpretations, with a facsimile of the unique manuscript. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-23040-8.
- ^ "Песни о событиях 1916 года". manuscript.bizdin.kg.
- ^ Chokobaeva, Aminat; Drieu, Cloé; Morrison, Alexander (2020). "Editors' introduction". In Chokobaeva, Aminat; Drieu, Cloé; Morrison, Alexander (eds.). The Central Asian revolt of 1916 : a collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution. Manchester. pp. 1–26 (p. 17). ISBN 978-1-5261-2942-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Егембердиева, С.; Акматалиев, А., eds. (2002). Тарыхый ырлар, кошоктор жана окуялар. Бишкек: Шам. pp. 169–177.
- ^ Prior, Daniel (2019). "A Qırghız verse narrative of rebellion and exile by Musa Chaghatay uulu". In Chokobaeva, Aminat; Drieu, Cloé; Morrison, Alexander (eds.). The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 308–326.