539th anniversary of Babur's birthday

February 14, 2022 is the 539th anniversary of the birth of Zahiriddin Muhammad ibn Umarshaikh Mirzo, a great representative of Uzbek classical literature.

Bobur, whose full name was Zahiriddin Muhammad Bobur ibn Umarshaikh Mirzo, was born on February 14, 1483. A great representative of Uzbek classical literature, poet, historian, geographer, statesman, talented commander, the founder of the Baburi dynasty, the Timurid prince, Babur is one of the grand figures of his time. His poems and rubais have been cherished and read in the past and now.

At the age of 18-19, Babur began to write “rubai” and “ghazals”. His ghazal with the “radif” "Topmadim" (I did not find) and the rubai, which begins with the verse "Yod etmas emish kishini gʻurbatda kishi" (Nobody remembers you when you are in grief), are connected with his life in those years.

Bobur's unparalleled art is that he could raise his personal experiences to the level of a serious generalization, and as a result, the ideas put forward in his works rose to the level of universal values. In Babur's works, especially in his poetry, he longs for his motherland, where he matured distinguishing white and black, craves for its soil, joneses for the sufferings of strangers, coveting for his homeland, demonstrating blows of fate and the sufferings of life, and the failures of the times.

The exact date of Bobur's collection of poems is unknown. However, the chapter on the events of 1518 - 1519 in the “Boburnoma”, clarifies that Babur sent his office from Kabul to Samarkand.

There are 119 “ghazals”, each “masnu” poem, 209 “rubais”, 10 “tuyuqs” and “qit’as”, more than 50 “muammo” and more than 60 “fard”. His collection work also contains 8 “masnavis” with a total size of 270 “bayts”.