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'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī (Chagatai: نظامالدین علی شیر نوایی, نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature.^[1]

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1441 births
15th-century Arabic-language poets
15th-century writers
Iranian Arabic-language poets
Officials of the Timurid Empire
Poets from the Timurid Empire
Poets of the medieval Islamic world
Scholars from the Timurid Empire
Sufis
Turkic literature

Abu Sa'id Mirza

Abu Sa'id Mirza (Chagatay/ابو سعید میرزا; b. 14248 February 1469 d.) was the ruler of the Timurid Empire during the mid-fifteenth century, and he was the paternal grandfather to the Mirza Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur Badshah Ghazi, who founded the Moghul Empire in the South Asian subcontinent in 1526 AD. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Abu Sa'id Mirza are people from Herat.

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Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza

Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza (ابوالقاسمبابر میرزا بن بایسنقر بیگ), was a Timurid ruler in Khurasan (1449–1457). Ali-Shir Nava'i and Abul-Qasim Babur Mirza are people from Herat.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Ali

Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.

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Alisher Navoiy (Tashkent Metro)

Alisher Navoiy is a station of the Tashkent Metro on Oʻzbekiston Line.

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Allah

Allah (ﷲ|translit.

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Amir Khusrau

Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253 – 1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau, was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived during the period of the Delhi Sultanate.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Aruz

The ʿarūż (from Arabic عروض), also called ʿarūż prosody, is the Persian, Turkic and Urdu prosody, using the ʿarūż meters. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Aruz are Turkic literature.

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Asafi Harawi

Asafi Harawi (1449 – 1517), was a Persian poet active during the late Timurid era. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Asafi Harawi are people from Herat and poets from the Timurid Empire.

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Attar of Nishapur

Abū Ḥāmid bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (– c. 1221; ابوحمید بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn (فریدالدین) and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری, Attar means apothecary), was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Attar of Nishapur are Persian-language poets.

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Azerbaijanis

Azerbaijanis (Azərbaycanlılar, آذربایجانلیلار), Azeris (Azərilər, آذریلر), or Azerbaijani Turks (Azərbaycan Türkləri, آذربایجان تۆرکلری) are a Turkic ethnic group living mainly in the Azerbaijan region of northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan.

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Babur

Babur (14 February 148326 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.

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Baburnama

The Bāburnāma (The Events; History of Babur) is the memoirs of Ẓahīr-ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur (1483–1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur.

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Badi' al-Zaman Mirza

Badi' al-Zaman Mirza (Bediüzzaman Mirza; بدیع‌الزمان‌ میرزا; died 1514) was a Timurid ruler of Herat from 1506 to 1507.

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Badr al-Din Hilali

Badr al-Din Hilali (بدرالدین هلالی; –1529) was a Persian poet of Turkic origin. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Badr al-Din Hilali are poets from the Timurid Empire.

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Bakshy

The bakshy (baxši) are traditional Turkmen musicians.

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Bayt (poetry)

A bayt (translit) is a metrical unit of Arabic, Azerbaijani, Ottoman, Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi and Urdu poetry.

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Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing.

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Caravanserai

A caravanserai (or caravansary) was a roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.

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Chagatai language

Chagatai (چغتای, Čaġatāy), also known as Turki, Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic (Čaġatāy türkīsi), is an extinct Turkic language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia.

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Dastan

Dastan (story, tale) is an ornate form of oral history, an epic, from Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan.

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Dawlatshah Samarqandi

Dawlatshah Samarqandi (دولتشاه سمرقندی; – 1494/1507) was a poet and biographer active under the Timurid Empire. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Dawlatshah Samarqandi are poets from the Timurid Empire.

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Divan

A divan or diwan (دیوان, dīvān; from Sumerian dub, clay tablet) was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see dewan).

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Diwan (poetry)

In Islamic cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, Sicily and South Asia, a Diwan (دیوان, divân, ديوان, dīwān) is a collection of poems by one author, usually excluding his or her long poems (mathnawī).

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Dystrophy

Dystrophy is the degeneration of tissue, due to disease or malnutrition, most likely due to heredity.

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Edward A. Allworth

Edward A. Allworth (December 1, 1920 – October 20, 2016) was an American historian specializing in Central Asia.

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Emir

Emir (أمير, also transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremonial authority. The title has a long history of use in the Arab World, East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is a reference work that facilitates the academic study of Islam.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Fasting

Fasting is abstention from eating and sometimes drinking.

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Five Pillars of Islam

The Five Pillars of Islam (أركان الإسلام; also أركان الدين "pillars of the religion") are fundamental practices in Islam, considered to be obligatory acts of worship for all Muslims.

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Fuzuli (poet)

Muhammad bin Suleyman (Məhəmməd Süleyman oğlu, italic; 1483–1556), better known by his pen name Fuzuli (Füzuli, italic), was a 16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic.

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Genealogy

Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

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Ghazal

The ghazal is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry.

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Governance

Governance is the overall complex system or framework of processes, functions, structures, rules, laws and norms borne out of the relationships, interactions, power dynamics and communication within an organized group of individuals which not only sets the boundaries of acceptable conduct and practices of different actors of the group and controls their decision-making processes through the creation and enforcement of rules and guidelines, but also manages, allocates and mobilizes relevant resources and capacities of different members and sets the overall direction of the group in order to effectively address its specific collective needs, problems and challenges.

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Great Soviet Encyclopedia

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE;, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.

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Greater Khorasan

Greater KhorāsānDabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed.

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Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

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Hajj

Hajj (translit; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims.

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Hanafi school

The Hanafi school or Hanafism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

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Hatefi

Abd-Allah Hatefi, commonly known as Hatefi (also spelled Hatifi; هاتفی; 1454 – 1521) was a Persian poet and nephew of the distinguished poet Jami (died 1492). Ali-Shir Nava'i and Hatefi are poets from the Timurid Empire.

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Herat

Herāt (Pashto, هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Jami

Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī (نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی; 7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a Sunni poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Jami are people from Herat and poets from the Timurid Empire.

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Joseph Orbeli

Joseph Orbeli (Հովսեփ Աբգարի Օրբելի, Hovsep Abgari Orbeli; translit; 20 March (O.S. 8 March) 1887 – 2 February 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951.

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Kathasaritsagara

The Kathāsaritsāgara ("Ocean of the Streams of Stories") (Devanagari: कथासरित्सागर) is a famous 11th-century collection of Indian legends and folk tales as retold in Sanskrit by the Shaivite Somadeva from Kashmir.

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Kazan

Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Khaqani

Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān, commonly known as Khāqānī (خاقانی,, – 1199), was a major Persian poet and prose-writer.

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Khvandamir

Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, commonly known as Khvandamir (غیاث‌الدین خواندمیر, also spelled Khwandamir; 1475/6 – 1535/6) was a Persian historian who was active in the Timurid, Safavid and Mughal empires. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Khvandamir are people from Herat.

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Kishvari

Nematullah Kishvari (Nemətulla Kişvəri, italic) was a 15th- and 16th-century poet. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Kishvari are Persian-language poets.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Love of God

Love of God can mean either love for God or love by God.

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M. E. Sharpe

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Madrasa

Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.

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Magtymguly Pyragy

Magtymguly Pyragy (مخدومقلی فراغی Makhdumqoli Farāghi; Magtymguly Pyragy;;, born Magtymguly, was a Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller who is considered the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history.

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Mahmud Muzahhib

Mahmud Muzahhib was a Persian painter who played a key-role in transferring the artstyle of the Timurids of Herat to the Uzbek court at Bukhara.

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Majd al-Din Muhammad Khvafi

Majd al-Din Muhammad Khvafi (مجد الدین محمد خوافی; died August 1494) was a Persian bureaucrat, who was one of the leading figures of the Timurid Empire in the late 15th-century. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Majd al-Din Muhammad Khvafi are officials of the Timurid Empire.

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Mashhad

Mashhad (مشهد) is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran.

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Maturidism

Maturidism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam named after Abu Mansur al-Maturidi. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Maturidism are Maturidis.

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Mir (title)

Mir (مير) (which is derived from the Arabic title Emir 'elite, general, prince') is a Persian and Kurdish title with variable connotations.

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Mirkhvand

Muhammad ibn Khvandshah ibn Mahmud, more commonly known as Mirkhvand (میرخواند, also transliterated as Mirkhwand; 1433/34 – 1498), was a Persian historian active during the reign of the Timurid ruler Sultan Husayn Bayqara.

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Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat Beg (Persian: میرزا محمد حیدر دولت بیگ c. 1499/1500 – 1551) was a Chagatai Turco-Mongol military general, governor of Kashmir, and a historian.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Muhakamat al-Lughatayn

Muhakamat al-Lughatayn (lit), was one of Mir Ali-Shir Nava'i's works.

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Mukhammas

Mukhammas (Arabic مخمس 'fivefold') refers to a type of Persian or Urdu cinquain or pentastich with Sufi connections based on a pentameter.

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Muqam

A Muqam (ئۇيغۇر مۇقامى, Муқам; p) is the melody type used in the music of the Uyghurs, that is, a musical mode and set of melodic formulas used to guide improvisation and composition.

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Musaddas

Musaddas is a genre of Urdu poetry in which each unit consists of 6 lines-sestain- (misra).

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Muslim world

The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah.

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Muzaffar bin Nasrullah

Muzaffar bin Nasrullah was the Uzbek ruler (Emir) of Bukhara from 1860 to 1885.

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Mysticism

Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning.

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Navoi International Airport

Navoiy International Airport is an airport of entry in Navoiy, Uzbekistan.

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Navoi Theater

The Navoi Theater (Alisher Navoiy nomidagi davlat akademik katta teatri, "Alisher Navoi State Academic Big Theatre") is the national opera theater in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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Navoiy

Navoiy, also spelled Navoi, is a city and the capital of Navoiy Region in the southwestern part of Uzbekistan.

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Navoiy Region

Navoiy Region (Навоий вилояти, Navoiy viloyati, translit) is one of the regions of Uzbekistan.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nishapur

Nishapur (نیشاپور, also help|italic.

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Nizami Ganjavi

Nizami Ganjavi (translit; c. 1141 – 1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī,Mo'in, Muhammad(2006), "Tahlil-i Haft Paykar-i Nezami", Tehran.: p. 2: Some commentators have mentioned his name as “Ilyas the son of Yusuf the son of Zakki the son of Mua’yyad” while others have mentioned that Mu’ayyad is a title for Zakki.

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Oghuz Turks

The Oghuz Turks (Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, Oγuz) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Ottoman Turks

The Ottoman Turks (Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Qasida

The qaṣīda (also spelled qaṣīdah; plural qaṣā’id) is an ancient Arabic word and form of poetry, often translated as ode,.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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René Grousset

René Grousset (5 September 1885 – 12 September 1952) was a French historian who was curator of both the Cernuschi Museum and the Guimet Museum in Paris and a member of the prestigious Académie française.

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Risalah (fiqh)

Risalah (رسالـة) is the Arabic word for treatise, but among the Shia, the term is used as shorthand for a (رسالهی عملیه) or treatise on practical law.

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families.

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Ruba'i

A rubāʿī (translit, from Arabic lit; plural: translit) or chahārgāna (چهارگانه) is a poem or a verse of a poem in Persian poetry (or its derivative in English and other languages) in the form of a quatrain, consisting of four lines (four hemistichs).

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Sadd-i Iskandari

The Sadd-i Iskandarī (Alexander's Wall) was composed by Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441–1501) in the second half of the fifteenth century.

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Safavid dynasty

The Safavid dynasty (Dudmâne Safavi) was one of Iran's most significant ruling dynasties reigning from 1501 to 1736.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Salah

Salah is the principal form of worship in Islam.

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Samarkand

Samarkand or Samarqand (Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia.

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Shah

Shah (شاه) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Indian and Iranian monarchies.

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Shah Rukh

Shah Rukh or Shahrukh Mirza (شاهرخ, Šāhrokh; 20 August 1377 – 13 March 1447) was the ruler of the Timurid Empire between 1405 and 1447. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Shah Rukh are people from Herat.

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Sherali Joʻrayev

Sherali Jorayev (Sherali Jorayev / Шерали Жўраев, Шерали Джураев; 12 April 1947 – 4 September 2023) was an Uzbek singer, songwriter, poet, author, and actor.

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Shiraz

Shiraz (شیراز) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars and Persis.

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Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Sufism

Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.

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Suleiman the Magnificent

Suleiman I (Süleyman-ı Evvel; I.,; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his Ottoman realm, was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Sultan Husayn Bayqara

Sultan Husayn Bayqara Mirza (سلطان حسین بایقرا. Husayn Bāyqarā; June/July 1438 – 4 May 1506) was the Timurid ruler of Herat from 1469 until May 4, 1506, with a brief interruption in 1470. Ali-Shir Nava'i and Sultan Husayn Bayqara are people from Herat.

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Tabriz

Tabriz (تبریز) is a city in the Central District of Tabriz County, in the East Azerbaijan province of northwestern Iran.

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Tashkent

Tashkent, or Toshkent in Uzbek, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan.

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The Conference of the Birds

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.

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Timurid dynasty

The Timurid dynasty, self-designated as Gurkani (گورکانیان|translit.

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Timurid Empire

The Timurid Empire was a late medieval, culturally Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India and Turkey.

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Timurid Renaissance

The Timurid Renaissance was a historical period in Asian and Islamic history spanning the late 14th, the 15th, and the early 16th centuries.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia.

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Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.

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Turkmen literature

Turkmen literature (Türkmen edebiýaty) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Old Oghuz Turkic and Turkmen languages.

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Turkoman (ethnonym)

Turkoman, also known as Turcoman, was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages.

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Ustad

Ustad, ustadh or ustaz (abbreviated as Ust., Ut. or Ud.; from Persian استاد ustād) is an honorific title used in West Asia, North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Uyghurs

The Uyghurs, alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.

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Uzbek language

Uzbek (pronounced), formerly known as Turki, is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.

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Uzbeks

The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek, Ўзбек,, Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.

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Yaqub (Aq Qoyunlu)

Yaqub b. Uzun Hasan (یعقوب بن اوزون حسن), commonly known as Sultan Ya'qub (سلطان یعقوب; Sultan Yaqub سلطان یعقوب) was the ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1478 until his death on 24 December 1490.

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Zakat

Zakat (or Zakāh) is one of the five pillars of Islam.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali-Shir_Nava'i

Also known as 'Ali Shir Nava'i, Ali Sher Navoi, Ali Sher Naw'ai, Ali Sher Nawa'i, Ali Sher Nawai, Ali Shir Nava'i, Ali Shir Navai, Ali Shir Navoi, Ali Şir Nevai, Ali-Sher Nawa'i, Alisher Navai, Alisher Navo'i, Alisher Navoi, Alisher Navoiy, Alishir Navai, Mir 'Ali Schir Nava'i, Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Mir Alisher Navoiy, Mīr ʿAlī Schīr Navā'ī.

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1441 births

15th-century Arabic-language poets

15th-century writers

Iranian Arabic-language poets

Officials of the Timurid Empire

Poets from the Timurid Empire

Poets of the medieval Islamic world

Scholars from the Timurid Empire

Sufis

Turkic literature

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