Career

He had a major influence on the development of modern Uzbek literature. He wrote one of the earliest pamphlets and satirical articles in Uzbekistan Furqat, like may other writers of the tsarist colonial period, was forced to praise tsarist Russia and its culture in his work.

When he started to write poems that were critical of the cruelty of Russian rule, he was exiled to Chinese Turkestan.

Zokirjon Xolmuhammad oʻgʻli was born in 1859 in Kokand. He was sent to a madrasa at the age of fourteen.

At the madrasa, Xolmuhammad oʻgʻli learned Arabic and Persian and became interested in Oriental literature. In 1889, he moved to Tashkent.

Starting from 1891, Xolmuhammad oʻgʻli traveled extensively to many countries, including Azerbaijan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, and India.

He arrived in Yarkant in 1893 and stayed there until his death in 1909.