Doiy

Biography

Doiy was one of the gifted lyric poets and calligraphers active in the Kokand and Fergana literary circles in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He wrote within the traditional classical poetry of his day and in the spirit of the enlightenment movement. Doiy lived through the transitional years of the late 19th and early 20th century, when literary and educational movements were flourishing in the Fergana Valley. He was educated in a madrasa and gained a firm command of Arabic and Persian and of the rules of the aruz; besides his poetry he was versed in calligraphy and in the chancery hand. He was in close literary contact with the other Fergana writers of the time and took an active part in poetic contests and literary gatherings. Doiy is an Arabic word meaning 'one who prays for another', 'the one who calls', 'he who summons to good'. He wrote lyric ghazals, muhammas and ruba'is chiefly in Uzbek and Persian; classical love experience, Sufi and philosophical reflection and ideas exalting learning and humanity lead in his verse. Doiy's ghazals stand out for the fluency of their language and the richness of their figures of speech. Following the tradition of such great masters as Alisher Navoiy and Fuzuliy, he composed taxmis on their ghazals. Although no divan of his own was published in full, many of his poems, ghazals and muhammas were taken into the manuscript literary bayaz anthologies and compilations copied in Kokand and Fergana in the late 19th and early 20th century. These sources are kept in the manuscript fonds of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan and in the archives of local museums.

Works

• G'azallar
• Muxammaslar
• Ruboiylar
• Navoiy va Fuzuliy g'azallariga taxmislar
• Bayoz va majmualarda saqlangan she'rlar