Many places and institutions in Central Asia are named after him.Īlisher Nava'i's portrait in Isfana, KyrgyzstanĪlisher Nava'i was born in 1441 at the city of Herat to a family of well-read Turkic chancery scribes. īecause 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. He emphasized his belief in the richness, precision and malleability of Turkic vocabulary as opposed to Persian. 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). ' 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. Mystics in a garden, an illustration to Sadd-i Iskandari by Qasim Ali.
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