Furqat

…most creative were Muqīmī and Furqat. Both were late Chagatai poets who saw Navāʾī, Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli (a 16th-century poet who wrote in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic), and the poets of the court of Muhammad ʿAli Khan as their literary models. Nevertheless, they both expanded the generic boundaries of…

Uzbek writers such as Muqīmī, Furqat, Zavqi, Dilshad, Anbar Atin, and Nazimakhanum were forced to praise Russian culture and society in their works. Furqat, who was from Kokand, was typical of these writers: in his poems, he praised tsarist Russia, and for each such poem he was—as archival research later…