Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī ( kk, Halıdı Kurbanǵalı; russian: Курбангали Халиди,Karmysheva, 100. 1846-1913) was a

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historian, focusing mainly on the history of the eastern Kazakh steppe. His works are important sources for the history of Kazakhstan and Xinjiang. Khālidī was born in Ayagoz, Kazakhstan, to a

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family, though he referred to himself as a "Noghay" - a Volga-Ural Muslim, or

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, as his father was a native of the Kazan area. His mother was a native of Ayagoz.Karmysheva, 110. He studied in several madrasas, first in his hometown of Ayagoz, then in Semipalatinsk, Lepsi, and

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. By 1871 he attained the rank of

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, and by 1874 was the imam of a mosque in Tacheng. Khālidī's writings utilize several Turkic languages, including Tatar,

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, Chagatai, and vernacular

. As such, studying and translating his works can be difficult for even experienced scholars.Khalidi, Frank, Usmanov, and Nathan Light. "Book Reviews - Inner Asia - An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912." The Journal of Asian Studies. 64. 4 (2005): p. 1021.

Published works

* ''Tārīkh-i jarīda-yi jadīda'', (New Historical Records). Kazan, 1889. * ''Tawārīkh-i khamsa-yi sharqī'' (Essays on the History of Five Eastern Peoples). Kazan, 1910. Now republished in abridged and modernized form in Kazakh as ''Tauarikh khamsa: bes tarikh'' by Kūrbanghali 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 Aḥmad-Walī al-Qazā and Qurbānʻali Khālidī''. Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 2001.

Notes

References

* Karmysheva, Dzh. Kh. "Kazakhstanskii istorik-kraeved i etnograf Kurbangali Khalidi." Sovetskaia Etnografiia 1 (1971): 100-110. * Khālidī, Qurbanʻali, 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. Historiography of Kazakhstan Historians of Central Asia Historians from the Russian Empire Ethnographers from the Russian Empire 1846 births 1913 deaths Kazakhstani orientalists {{ethnographer-stub