Historical And Artistic Work "Firdavs Ul-Iqbal" By The American Scientist Y. Bregel

Abstract

              The article studies that the analysis by the American scholar Y.Bregel (1925-2016) on the poet, historian, translator and statesmen   Munis and Ogahiy’s  “Fidavs ul-Iqbal”. “Firdavs ul-Iqbal” is a unique encyclopedic work that reflects the history, culture, ethnography, literary environment and social processes of Khorezm in historical and artistic form. A comprehensive study of “Fidavs ul-Iqbal” interests not only local scientists but also foreign scholars, as a result, there is appeared known and unknown studies to us in scientific sphere. The study of the problem by foreign scholars has not been sufficiently researched.  This scientific need served as the basis for coverage of one of the urgent problems of philology.  Yuri Enokhovich Bregel was an American historian, orientalist, and author of several monographs on the history, culture and literature of Central Asia. In particular, the scientist studied the work “Firdavs ul-Iqbal” seriously , dedicated to the history of the Khiva khans, and created a scientific critical text. He also translated the work into English and played an important role in acquainting foreign readers and scholars with the essence of the work “Firdavs ul-Iqbal”  by Ogahiy and Munis. The preface by J. Bregel about the source consists of four parts. The first part is devoted to the works of Munis and Agahi, the second part covers the properties of “Fidavs ul-Iqbal”, the third to the study of the work and the fourth part reveals the characteristics of handwritten copies of the source.The author of the article revealed the scientist’s research skill as much as possible based on Y.Bregel’s rich in scientifically English preface