Näqi İsänbät

Näqi İsänbät ( tt-Cyrl, Нәкый Исәнбәт ; russian: Наки Исанбет, ''Naki Isanbet'', also anglicised as ''Nakie Isanbet''; December 29, 1899 – September 12, 1992) was a

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

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 ulı Zakirov ( tt-Cyrl, Нәкый Сираҗетдин улы Закиров, russian: Наки Сиразетдинович Закиров, Naki Sirazetdinovich Zakirov) into a family of a village

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in the village Maloyaz in the Republic of

Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик� ...

. He began attending the village

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and continued his studies at the "Husania" madrasah in the

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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 Nasreddin () or Nasreddin Hodja (other variants include: Mullah Nasreddin Hooja, Nasruddin Hodja, Mullah Nasruddin, Mullah Nasriddin, Khoja Nasriddin) (1208-1285) is a character in the folklore of the Muslim world from Arabia to Central Asi ...

'', ''Zifa'', ''Briefcase'', ''

Musa Cälil Musa Cälil ( tt-Cyrl, Муса Җәлил, translit=Musa Çəlil, ; russian: Муса Джалиль; 25 August 1944) was a Soviet–Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union awarded simultaneously the Hero of t ...

'', ''Fugitives'') always were in the repertoires of the Tatar theatres. Näqi İsänbät wrote for children, including folk-lore genre. A unique edition of ''Tatar national proverbs'' in three volumes has been awarded the Ğabdulla Tuqay State Prize. Näqi İsänbät introduced into cultural turn a heroic epos of the Tatar people - (dastan) '' İdegäy'', 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Isanbat, Naqi 1899 births 1992 deaths People from Salavatsky District Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Tatar people of the Soviet Union Soviet dramatists and playwrights Soviet male poets Soviet male writers Tatar dramatists and playwrights Tatar poets Tatar writers