"THE HISTORY OF THE RULERS OF FERGANA" AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE (historical analysis)
The article covers an analysis of the work entitled “The History of the Fargana rulers”, written in Chagatai language and which was found in 2001 in the library of the Istanbul University. It was noted that the author of the work is kyrgyz Ziyabidin Maksym, that this work differs both in volume and content from the written sources dedicated to the history of the Kokand khanate. In the Kokand khanate which existed in the 1709-1876, and turned into a regional power in the middle of the XIX century - including modern Uzbekistan, Southern and Southeastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, mountainous regions of Tajikistan, the territory of which was more than the whole continental Western Europe, the Kokand khanate left a deep imprint on the histories of the peoples being the part of the khanate. This news in the field of science confirmed that it is still too early to consider the history research of the Kokand khanate to be completed, and that the rationale of this topic is also not lost due to the discovery of new information, as well as a number of Kyrgyz historians such as Osmonaly Sydyk uulu, Belek Soltonoev was supplemented with a new name, which is called in the Kyrgyz chronicle by the name of Ziyabiddin Maksym. To determine the place and role of the Kyrgyz people in the social and political history of the Kokand khanate the researcher made the first deep analysis of the work “The History of the Fargana rulers”.