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'''Qurbān-ʻAlī Khālidī''' ({{lang-ru|Курбангали Халиди}},<ref name=k1>Karmysheva, 100.</ref> 1846-1913) was a [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] [[historian]], focusing mainly on the history of the eastern [[Kazakh steppe]]. His works are important sources for the history of [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Xinjiang]].<ref>Khālidī, Frank, Usmanov, ix.</ref>

Khālidī was born in [[Ayagoz]], Kazakhstan, to a [[Chala Kazakh]] family, though he referred to himself as a "Noghay" - a Volga-Ural Muslim, or [[Tatars|Tartar]],<ref>Khālidī, Frank, Usmanov, x.</ref> as his father was a native of the [[Kazan]] area. His mother was a native of Ayagoz.<ref name=k2>Karmysheva, 110.</ref> He studied in several [[madrasa]]s, first in his hometown of Ayagoz, then in [[Semipalatinsk]], Lepsi, and [[Bukhara]]. By 1871 he attained the rank of [[imam]], and by 1874 was the imam of a [[mosque]] in [[Tacheng]].<ref>Khālidī, Frank, Usmanov, xi.</ref>

Khālidī's writings utilize several Turkic languages, including [[Tatar]], [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]], [[Chagatai language|Chagatai]], and vernacular [[Kazakh language|Kazakh]].<ref name=k1/> As such, studying and translating his works can be difficult for even experienced scholars.<ref>Khalidi, Frank, Usmanov, and Nathan Light. "Book Reviews - Inner Asia - An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912." The Journal of Asian Studies. 64. 4 (2005): p. 1021.</ref>

==Published works==
* ''Tārīkh-i jarīda-yi jadīda'', (New Historical Records).<ref name=k1/> Kazan, 1889.
* ''Tawārīkh-i khamsa-yi sharqī'' (Essays on the History of Five Eastern Peoples).<ref name=k1/> Kazan, 1910.  Now republished in abridged and modernized form in Kazakh as ''Tauarikh khamsa: bes tarikh'' by Kūrbanghali Khalid.
* ''An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912''. Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
* ''Materials for the Islamic history of Semipalatinsk: two manuscripts by Aḥmad-Walī al-Qazā and Qurbānʻali Khālidī''. Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 2001.

==Notes==
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==References==
* Karmysheva, Dzh. Kh. "Kazakhstanskii istorik-kraeved i etnograf Kurbangali Khalidi." Sovetskaia Etnografiia 1 (1971): 100-110.
* Khālidī, Qurbanʻali, Allen J. Frank, and Mirkasym Abdulakhatovich Usmanov. ''An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912''. Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

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