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Kadyrgalibek Kosymuly Zhalairi (Qadırğalï Jalayir / Kadyrғali Zhalayir, nickname Karachi) is a Kazakh chronicler and politician who lived in the 16th century.

Kadir Ali Bey b. Khoshum bek Jalair (1530-1605) [source not specified 1854 days] - a courtier of the Siberian and Kasimov khans, a historian.

He served the Siberian Khan Kuchum. Captured by the Russians. Admitted to the service of the Khasimov Khan Uraz-Mohammed. In 1602 he wrote the historical treatise "Jami at-tavarih" (Collection of Chronicles). It contains an abbreviated version of the work of the same name by Rashid al-Din and the original part of several dastans. The chronicle provides a local Tatar-Nogai version of events in Desht-i-Kipchak in the 15th-16th centuries. The Tatar text was published by I. N. Berezin in 1854. - Collection of Chronicles. Kazan, 1854 (Library of Oriental Historians, published by I. N. Berezin, vol. 2, part 1) The work was studied by M. A. Usmanov (M. Usmanov. Tatar historical sources of the XVII — XVIII centuries. Kazan, 1972.).

Biography
The ancestors of Kadyrgali Zhalairi from the times of the Karakhanids were continuously Khan novians, viziers, batyrs. His father was Kasym-bek, and his grandfather was Timshik-batyr. Kadyrgali Zhalairi served as a tutor of high-born offspring and a khan advisor at the court of the ruler.

Kadyrgali was in the service of the khan, was his adviser, led the clerical work, was engaged in the education of young sultans. The fact that the grandfather, father, and Kadyrgali himself were directly at the court of the khans, served as a great help in writing a historical work on the Kazakh Khanate of the 15-16 centuries.

Kadyrgali Zhalairi and Uraz-Mohammed spent more than ten years in Russia at the court of the Moscow Tsar. In the 90s of the XVI century, Uraz-Mohammed was repeatedly mentioned as a participant in hikes and palace celebrations. In 1600, Boris Godunov appointed him king in the city of Kasimov on the Oka River. When Uraz-Mohammed became king of the Kasimov khanate, Kadyrgali Zhalairi was elected his chief vizier. While under Sultan Uraz-Mohammed, Kadyrgali wrote in 1600 his famous book, The Collection of Chronicles. He is masterful in writing. Academician Rabiga Syzdykova, who wrote a large scientific monograph on the book "A Collection of Chronicles," said Kadyrgali Zhalairi founder of the Kazakh written literary speech.

Heritage
As a historian, he left the people a very valuable historical work. This “Zhami At-Tavarikh” - “Collection of Chronicles” is a historical essay setting out the events that took place in Kazakhstan and Central Asia in the 13th — 15th centuries. Written in a mixed Kazakh-Chagatai language with a wide use of popular proverbs and sayings, used today in the Kazakh language. According to Shokan Ualihanov, this work by Zhalairi is one of the most important sources on the history of Kazakhstan, and in terms of completeness of information about the Kazakhs, it occupies one of the first places.Relying on factual material, Kadyrgali Zhalairi can rightly be considered the ancestor of written works in a truly Kazakh language. “Zhami at-tavarikh” Shokan Ualikhanov defines as a rare historical essay, as a collection of Kazakh folk historical legends of the XV-XVI. The work of Zhalairi is one of the important sources on the history of Kazakhstan, and in terms of completeness of information about the Kazakhs, it occupies one of the first places.

Memory
Monument of Kadyrgali Zhalairi erected in Taldykorgan☁