Qurb?n-?Al? Kh?lid? ( Kazakh : Halıdı Kurban?alı ; Russian : Курбангали Халиди , ^[1] 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 . ^[2]

Kh?lid? was born in Ayagoz , Kazakhstan, to a Chala Kazakh family, though he referred to himself as a "Noghay" - a Volga-Ural Muslim, or Tartar , ^[3] as his father was a native of the Kazan area. His mother was a native of Ayagoz. ^[4] He studied in several madrasas , first in his hometown of Ayagoz, then in Semipalatinsk , Lepsi, and Bukhara . By 1871 he attained the rank of imam , and by 1874 was the imam of a mosque in Tacheng . ^[5]

Kh?lid?'s writings utilize several Turkic languages, including Tatar , Ottoman Turkish , Chagatai , and vernacular Kazakh . ^[1] As such, studying and translating his works can be difficult for even experienced scholars. ^[6]

Published works [ edit ]

• T?r?kh-i jar?da-yi jad?da , (New Historical Records). ^[1] Kazan, 1889.
• Taw?r?kh-i khamsa-yi sharq? (Essays on the History of Five Eastern Peoples). ^[1] Kazan, 1910. Now republished in abridged and modernized form in Kazakh as Tauarikh khamsa: bes tarikh by K?rbanghali 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 A?mad-Wal? al-Qaz? and Qurb?n?ali Kh?lid? . Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 2001.

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References [ edit ]

• Karmysheva, Dzh. Kh. "Kazakhstanskii istorik-kraeved i etnograf Kurbangali Khalidi." Sovetskaia Etnografiia 1 (1971): 100-110.
• Kh?lid?, Qurban?ali, Allen J. Frank, and Mirkasym Abdulakhatovich Usmanov. An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912 . Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

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