Kul Sharif

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Kul Sharif or Qol Şärif (Tatar language: Кол Шәриф; Russian: Кул-Шариф; died 1552) was a statesman, university professor and religious Imam of Khanate of Kazan, Old Tatar language-poet.^{[citation needed]}

He participated in some diplomatic missions on behalf of Kazan khans to Muscovy and there carried out negotiations for the khanate's independence.^{[citation needed]}

In 1552 he was one of leaders of Kazan's defense from the Russian troops of Ivan the Terrible. He also participated in the negotiations with Russian representatives in Sviyajsk (Zöyä). After the storm of Kazan started, he organized a group of students and defended the Khan Palace. He was killed during the battle.^{[citation needed]}

Later, four of his poems were included in "The Book of Baqırğan". Qolşärif's literary legacy was published in "İ küñel, bu dönyadır (O soil, may be this world...)", a collection of verses (Kazan, 1997). It is believed that the authorship of the dastan "Qíssai Xöbbi xuca" also belongs to him. It was published in 1889.^{[citation needed]}

Kul Sharif

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