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On November  13 at 15:00 hours there in the Hall after N.Dauletova within the framework of celebration of the 175-th birthday of Abai Kunanbayev was held the poetical evening named “Abai and the poets of the Orient”.

The world literature is hard to imagine without the classics of ancient Oriental literature – Rudaki, Firdousi and Khayam, Saadi and Khafiz, Navoi, Nizami and others. The creative activity of the poets of the Orient possesses the wonderful quality, the inconceivable independence from time, the perfect unfading quality.

The great Abai Kunanbayev in his verses mentions the names of the seven poets of the Orient, whom he deemed to be his teachers.

                                       Fizuli, Shamsi, Saikhali,

                                       Nauai, Sagdi, Firdousi,

                                       Khozha Khafiz-bu Hammasi

                                       Medet ber ya shagiri fariyad

There with the verses of Abai the activity was opened by head of the group of the Service of world literature G.Bakhina.

The moderator of the activity was the PhD doctor, senior teacher of the faculty of Oriental studies of the KazNU after Al-Farabi Galiya Kambarbekova. Teacher of the chair of the Middle East and Southern Asia, PhD doctor B.Batyrkhan narrated about the life of Firdousi and Abai. The senior teacher A.Boranbayeva explained the role of the Persian language in the poetry of world literature, G.Kambarbekova stopped upon the general themes about which Abai and the Oriental poets wrote, the doctoral student K.Zhetpisbayeva read the verses of Saadi Shirazi by the theme of humanity and politeness, the student of the 4-th course U.Abdurakhimova read the rubai of Omar Khayam and told the gathered people about the deep meanings of the rubai. Besides the young specialists of National library of the RK M.Okap and A.Rakhimova recited the rubai of Omar Khayam and the Turkic poets in original, embellishing the literary evening. The participants shared the new results of researches in the poetry of the Orient.  

Summarizing the results of the evening, the moderator said, that the lyrics of the Orient declares the right of man for happiness, freedom and justice in life. Disclosing the inner experiences of the heroes the poets each in his own way reflected the uniqueness and beauty of everyday life.

There for the poetical evening National library of the RK organized the books and virtual exhibitions named “Abai and the poets of the Orient” where there were demonstrated the works and creative activity of the Oriental poets in different languages.

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