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Place of Birth: Maloyaz, Russia
About Näqi İsänbät
- Näqi Isänbät (Tatar: ????? ??????? [næ'qi isæn'bæt]; Russian: ???? ???????, Naki Isanbet, also anglicised as Nakie Isanbet) 1899-1992) was a Tatar writer, an encyclopaedist, a poet, a playwright, a prosaist, a children's writer, a specialist in folklore and a philologist.
- He is the one who had collected and composed defining and phraseological Tatar dictionaries. Born Näqi Siracetdin uli Zakirov (Tatar: ????? ?????????? ??? ???????, Russian: ???? ?????????????? ???????, Naki Sirazetdinovich Zakirov) into a family of a village mullah in the village Maloyaz in the Republic of Bashkortostan.
- He began attending the village madrasah and continued his studies at the "Husania" madrasah in the Ufa city (Bashkortostan).
- Being a student of the famous Kazan madrasah Möxämmädiä, at the age of 15 he started publishing his works in magazines. At that time his interest in regard with a word and the language began arising.
- Through all his life Isanbet retained his utter love for people's art and his mother tongue. His verses became a basis for folk songs: Winding water, Accordion, You were playing a pipe. His plays (Hoja Nasreddin, Zifa, Briefcase, Musa Cälil, Fugitives) always were in the repertoires of the Tatar theatres. Näqi Isänbät wrote for children, including folk-lore genre.
- A unique edition of Tatar national proverbs in three volumes has been awarded the Gabdulla Tuqay State Prize. Näqi Isänbät introduced into cultural turn a heroic epos of the Tatar people - (dastan) Idegäy, first published in 1940.
- When writing its summary text he used the principle of creative restoration.
- The new and more precise variant of the epos was ready but the war and later on prohibition of the then authority hampered its publication.
- The materials had been published in the late 1980s with no appropriate reference to the author.
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