Mavlya Kolyi
1630 – 1715
Countries:
Russia
Place of Birth:
Kulaevo, Kazan Province
Categories:
Poetry
Mavlya Kolyi was born in 1630 and was a Tatar poet and religious figure.
In the 1670s he lived near the city of Bolgar (Bulgar), in 1699 he moved to the village of Stariy Ishtiryak.
The author of a poetry collection "Wise sayings" ("Хикмə тлə р"; 1669-1670, other information, 1678-1679), which contains over 100 poems of religious and philosophical themes, first discovered in 1925 (manuscript list - 1855, partly published in 1927).
At the end of the 1990s there were found fragments of poems "About like-minded people" ("Береккəннəр сыйфаты") and "About seeking permitted food" ("Хәләл нәфәка эстәгәннәр сыйфаты", both published in 2008).
Works by Mavlya Kolyi continues the tradition of Central Asian Sufi poetry school (A. Yasavi, S. Bakirgani).
In Mavlya Kolyi poetry is dominated by motifs of life and death, moral purity, Islamic asceticism, it is characterized by 12-syllabic verse, the strict observance of rhythm and rhyme.
In the 1670s he lived near the city of Bolgar (Bulgar), in 1699 he moved to the village of Stariy Ishtiryak.
The author of a poetry collection "Wise sayings" ("Хикмə тлə р"; 1669-1670, other information, 1678-1679), which contains over 100 poems of religious and philosophical themes, first discovered in 1925 (manuscript list - 1855, partly published in 1927).
At the end of the 1990s there were found fragments of poems "About like-minded people" ("Береккəннəр сыйфаты") and "About seeking permitted food" ("Хәләл нәфәка эстәгәннәр сыйфаты", both published in 2008).
Works by Mavlya Kolyi continues the tradition of Central Asian Sufi poetry school (A. Yasavi, S. Bakirgani).
In Mavlya Kolyi poetry is dominated by motifs of life and death, moral purity, Islamic asceticism, it is characterized by 12-syllabic verse, the strict observance of rhythm and rhyme.