SAYYADI – GHAZAL WRITER

It is difficult to imagine the history of Uzbek literature without the ghazal genre, because this genre has been one of the leading genres in our literature until the 20th century. Until today, the genre of ghazal has been studied in Uzbek literature as a separate genre. The poets\u27 volumes (“divans”) served as the object of these studies. However, other works, especially the ghazals used in the epics, were ignored. Among such works Sayyadi\u27s epic Tahir and Zuhra can serve as an example. The following article discovers the usage of ghazals in this epic and shares some peculiarities of the ghazal genre itself