GOLḴANI, MOḤAMMAD ŠARIF (1770s-1827), poet and satirist from Kokand (Ḵōqand), bilingual in Persian and Chaghatay (see CHAGHATAY LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)….

RĀŻIA ĀZĀD (Roziya Ozod in Tajik orthography; 1893-1957), Tajik poet and educator. Born into a family of craftsmen in Khujand,…

DELŠĀD BARNĀ, Tajik educator, historian, and poetess bilingual in Persian and Chaghatay Turkish (b. Ura Tepe, 1800; d. Ḵˇoqand, 1905)….

ḤAKIMOVA, MAWJUDA, Soviet Tajik poetess (b. 5 May 1932, Khujand; d. 1993, Khujand). Mawjuda Ḥakimova, also referred to as Mawjuda,…

ŠOKUROV, MOḤAMMADJĀN (Taj. Muhammadjon Šukurov; also Šakuri), Tajik scholar and literary critic (b. February 1925, Bukhara; d. 16 September 2012,…

KETĀBḴĀNA-YE MELLI-E TĀJIKESTĀN (Taj. Kitobḵonai millii Tojikiston), the National Library of Tajikistan, located in Dushanbe. Tajikistan National Library was established…

ŠĀHIN, Šams-al-Din Maḵdum (b. Bukhara, 1859; d. Qarši 1894), Bukharan Tajik poet and satirist. The only child of Mollā Amān,…

NĀDERA (b. Andejān 1792; d. Ḵᵛoqand 1842) Transoxianan poetess of Ḵᵛoqand, who wrote in both Persian–with the pen name Maknuna–and…