Muhammad Ali Madali

Muhammad Ali Madali (also known as Dukchi Eshon in Uzbek language or Iyikchi Eshen in Kyrgyz) was an īshān of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, who led an 1898 revolt against Russian domination, centred in the town of Andijan (in modern Uzbekistan).

Madali, seeking to rid the area of the Russians and restore the formerly independent khanate of Khokand, called for "holy war", and led 2,000 men against the Tsarist Russia.

Among them was a prominent poet-improviser and composer Toktogul Satylganov (1864–1933), who was jailed by a false accusation by his political foes in the Ketmen-Tobe valley about his alleged participation in the revolt.

In the post-Soviet historiography in Central Asia, the Andijan revolt has been described as a progressive anti-Tsarist movement aimed to establish an independent state in the Ferghana Valley.

The Andijan Uprising of 1898 and its leader Dukchi-ishan described by contemporary Poets'[1]' TIAS Central Eurasian Research Series No.3.

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