Ali-Shir Nava'i

Nizām al-Din Ali Shīr Navā'i (1441-1501) Nizām-al-Din ʿAlī-Shīr Herawī ( Chagatai and ; ; ) (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501) was a Central Asian politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of Uyghur origin who was born and lived in Herat . He is generally known by his pen name Navā'ī ( , meaning "the weeper" ). Because of his distinguished Chagatai ( Middle Turkic ) poetry, he is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. In the early new Persian and the eastern contemporary variants of the Persian language, there are two different vowels ī and ē which are shown by the same Perso-Arabic letter ی, and in the standard transliteration, both of them are usually transliterated as ī . However, when the distinction of ī and ē is considered, his first name should be transliterated as Alī-Shēr .

Mīr ' Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAlī-Shīr Herawī ( Chagatai-Turkic / ) was a Central Asian Turkic poet, writer, politician, linguist, mystic , and painter. He was the greatest representative of Chagatai language literature. Because of his distinguished Chagatai language poetry, Nava'i is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. Many places and institutions in Central Asia are named after him. There are <ref group=n> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ). The Encyclopedia of Islam .

Mīr ' Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai Turkic / ), was a Turkic poet, writer, politician, linguist, mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature. Nava'i believed that Chagatai and other Turkic languages were superior to Persian for literary purposes, an uncommon view at the time and defended this belief in his work titled The Comparison of the Two Languages . He emphasized his belief in the richness, precision and malleability of Turkic vocabulary as opposed to Persian. Because of his distinguished Chagatai language poetry, Nava'i is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. Many places and institutions in Central Asia are named after him. There are <ref group=n> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501) "Alisher Navoi" redirects here. Mystics in a garden , an illustration to Sadd-i Iskandari by Qasim Ali . Bodleian Library ' Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai : نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, ) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature. Nava'i believed that his native Chagatai Turkic language was superior to Persian for literary purposes, an uncommon view at the time and defended this belief in his work titled Muhakamat al-Lughatayn ( The Comparison of the Two Languages ). He emphasized his belief in the richness, precision and malleability of Turkic vocabulary as opposed to Persian. Because of his distinguished Chagatai language poetry, Nava'i is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. Many places and institutions in Central Asia are named after him. There are <ref group=n> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501) "Alisher Navoi" redirects here. Mystics in a garden , an illustration to Sadd-i Iskandari by Qasim Ali . Bodleian Library ' Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai : نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, Persian : نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی ) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature. Nava'i believed that his native Chagatai Turkic language was superior to Persian for literary purposes, an uncommon view at the time and defended this belief in his work titled Muhakamat al-Lughatayn ( The Comparison of the Two Languages ). He emphasized his belief in the richness, precision and malleability of Turkic vocabulary as opposed to Persian. Due to his distinguished Chagatai language poetry, Nava'i is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. Many places and institutions in Central Asia are named after him, including the province and city of Navoiy in Uzbekistan . Many monuments and busts in honour of Alisher Navoi's memory have been erected in different countries and cities such as Tashkent , Samarkand , Navoiy of Uzbekistan, Ashgabat of Turkmenistan, Ankara of Turkey, Seoul of South Korea, Tokyo of Japan, Shanghai of China, Osh of Kyrgyzstan, Astana of Kazakhstan, Dushanbe of Tajikistan, Herat of Afghanistan, Baku of Azerbaijan, Moscow of Russia, Minsk of Belarus, Lakitelek of Hungary and Washington, D.C. of the United States. There are <ref group=n> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ). The World of Persian Literary Humanism . "Literary voyage through the Magtymguly Fragi cultural and park complex" . 29 May 2024. "A bust of Alisher Navoi was installed in Lakitelek, Hungary" . gazeta.uz (in Uzbek) .