Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī
Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī (Халиди Құрбанғали, Halidi Qūrbanğali, 1846–1913) was a Kazakh historian, focusing mainly on the history of the eastern Kazakh steppe. His works are important sources for the history of Kazakhstan and Xinjiang. Khālidī was born in Ayagoz, Kazakhstan, to a Chala Kazakh family, though he referred to himself as a "Noghay" - a Volga-Ural Muslim, or Tartar, as his father was a native of the Kazan area.
Also recorded as Kurban wali Kalidi
Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī
- Born
- 1846 · Ayagoz.
- Died
- 1913 · Tacheng.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
- Occupation
- historian · poet
- Education
- madrasa
- Languages
- Arabic · Ottoman Turkish
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Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī (Халиди Құрбанғали, Halidi Qūrbanğali, 1846–1913) was a Kazakh historian, focusing mainly on the history of the eastern Kazakh steppe. His works are important sources for the history of Kazakhstan and Xinjiang. Khālidī was born in Ayagoz, Kazakhstan, to a Chala Kazakh family, though he referred to himself as a "Noghay" - a Volga-Ural Muslim, or Tartar, as his father was a native of the Kazan area.
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1846
Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī was born on 30 November 1846.
1913
Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī died on 1 January 1913.
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Ayagoz.
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Tacheng.
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His mother was a native of Ayagoz. He studied in several madrasas, first in his hometown of Ayagoz, then in Semipalatinsk, Lepsi, and Bukhara. Khālidī's writings utilize several Turkic languages, including Tatar, Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, and vernacular Kazakh.
• Tārīkh-i jarīda-yi jadīda, (New Historical Records). Kazan, 1889. • Tawārīkh-i khamsa-yi sharqī (Essays on the History of Five Eastern Peoples). Kazan, 1910. Now republished in abridged and modernized form in Kazakh as Tauarikh khamsa: bes tarikh by Kūrbanghali Khalid. • An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912. Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004. • Materials for the Islamic history of Semipalatinsk: two manuscripts by Aḥmad-Walī al-Qazā and Qurbānʻali Khālidī. Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 2001.
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Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Kurban wali Kalidi. His recorded languages were Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. His recorded confession was Islam.
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