Durbek
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Durbek
Dates of birth and death unknown. Uzbek poet of the late 14th and early 15th century.
Of Durbek’s works, only the romantic narrative love poem Yusuf and Zulaikha, written in Old Uzbek, has come down to us. It is about the biblical legend of Joseph and the wife of the Egyptian noble Potiphar, which became known in the East through the Koran and various literary versions of Persian-Tadzhik poets of the ninth through 11th centuries. In Durbek’s version, however, the narrative poem has no religious overtones and is full of living images, human experiences, and details of everyday life.
WORKS
Yusuf vä Zulaykha. Tashkent, 1959.REFERENCE
Bertel’s, E. E. “Uzbekskii poet Durbek i ego poema ob Iosife Prekrasnom.” In the almanac Dar. Tashkent, 1944.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.