Abduhalik Uyghur (Uyghur

Uyghur language

Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other...

: ئابدۇخالىق ئۇيغۇر) was a Uyghur poet.

Abudhalik began his studies in a Madrasah

Madrasah

Madrasah is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious...

 at the age of eight. He studied Arabic, Persian, and Uyghur classics. Later on he went to a Chinese school in Turpan and after learning Chinese studied various Chinese literary works, including those of Sun Yat Sen.

After 1923 he spent 3 years in the Soviet Union. Studying the works of Pushkin, Tolstoy

Tolstoy

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, Gorki

Gorki

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 and other Russian literature.

He was executed by Sheng Shicai

Sheng Shicai

Sheng Shicai was a Chinese warlord who "ruled" Xinjiang province from April 12, 1933 to August 29, 1944....

at the age of 32, on the thirteenth of March, 1933.

External links

• Biography (Uyghur)
• Selected Poetry (Uyghur)
• Poem: Oyghan (Many languages including English)