Khiva city-museum in the open

Ata Murad Matriza Kushbegi Mosque

The Ata Murad Matriza Kushbegi mosque (1800) stands to the north from Kunya-Ark. Built into a northward-looking 28.7 meter-long rectangular area. The mosque includes a small portal entrance with a hallway and a minaret above, a shallow offset avian, a six-column regular avian and a winter hall. Atamurad Kushbegi’s son Muhammadrizo (Matriza) built the mosque anew after taking over his father in 1837. The mosque’s summer terrace features a marble plaque dated at 1232 of Hijra, which equals 1816 AD. In 1846 Matriza Kushbegi played a major role in bringing about Muhammad Amin ascension to power. Ata Murad Kushbegi was executed for not being respectful enough of Muhammad Aminkhan.

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    Abdurasulbay Madrasah (1906)
    

The Madrasah is adjoining the south-eastern corner of Yar Muhammad Divan Mosque. It was built with the money of Abdurasulbay, nephew of Muhammad Niyaz Mirzabashi (Kamil Khorezmi), a great poet, composer and translator. The Madrasah is elongated along the east-west direction. The entrance part, placed in the centre between two yards, consists of two longitudinally oriented domed sections with side exits to Madrasah yards. Two Abdurasulbay's deceased daughters were buried in two hujras.

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    Matrasulboy Mirzaboshi Madrasah (1905)
    

It is located opposite the western walls of Shirghazi Khan Madrasah. It was built by Muhammad Rasul Mirzabashi, the son of poet and composer Muhammad Niyaz Mirzabashi (Kamil Khorezmi). Muhammad Rasul Mirzabashi was born in 1839, received primary education from his father Kamil Khorezmi and later graduated from a madrasah and Russian school. Kazy Abdullah taught him languages. He perfectly spoke Persian and Arabic and was very good at classic Oriental Poetry. In 1906, with the help of his father he defined tambour notes for the first time in Middle Asia.

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    Kamil Khorazmi House Museum
    

Kamil Khorezmi’s House Museum is placed in karikhana which was built by himself. Karikhana is located in the western part of Pahlavan Mahmud mausoleum. Official and rich people tried to build eternity houses during their life, where people could pray, and read fragments of the Holy book of Muslims “Karan”. Kamil Khorezmi also was one of them, by his order there was built karikhana which consists of the passage and two rooms for quarter at his grave. Kari- it is a name, whom was given to the man who read by heart the fragments of Holy book “Karan”. Kari provided by karikhana visit here everyday, read Karan surah and oyats for the ghosts of buried men, they devoted retaliations for the buried ones. For this, taking their allotment from the vaqf’s income, they also controlled vaqf’s income. Besides, generations, relatives and any people wishing to visit to the grave of the owner and with making prays they left currencies and things. It was possible to bury just one man or members of one family in Karikhana.
In Khan’s period Kamil Khorezmi (1825-1899) worked as a director and a secretary. Kamil- was a great poet, instrumentalist, composer and politician, his literary pen-name is Pahlavanniyoz Abdulla’s son.
Divans which took inside the novels of Kamil Khorazmi were brought to us in form of manuscripts and stone scripts. Divan’s first edition was in 1298 by khijra (1881) It was printed on Khiva’s stone script. The buildings which were situated at the west side of Karikhana were considered to belong to the lands of Khoja Mahram the grandfather of Kamil Khorezmi by mother’s side and to the family of Pahlavinniyaz.
The house where Kamil Khorezmi lived on this yard has been kept till this day and at the present time it was turned to the private firm “Mirzabashi” by his generation, it services like the guest house for the tourists.

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