Ali-Shir Nava'i

'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 poet, writer, official, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic, and painter. He was from the Timurid Empire. He is thought to be one of the best Chagatai literature writers.

Nava'i thought that his native Chagatai Turkic language was better than Persian. He defended his opinion in his work called Muhakamat al-Lughatayn (The Comparison of the Two Languages).

He made lots of Chagatai language poetry. Nava'i is thought to be the founder of early Turkic literature. Many places in Central Asia are named after him. In Uzbekistan, the province and city of Navoiy are named after him.

In Tashkent, Samarkand, Navoi, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Osh, Astana, Dushanbe, Herat, Baku, Moscow, Minsk, and Washington, D.C., there are statues and busts of him.

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A website about Alisher Nava'i
Alisher Nava'i on UzLib on-line library 
Copy of Muhakamat al-Lughatain at Harvard
Mahbub ul-Qulub in Chaghatay
"Chaucer of the Turks" by Barry Hoberman

"Alisher Navoiy haqida" by Tafakkur

Category:Sufis
Category:Hanafis
Category:1440s births
Category:1500s deaths
Category:Asian poets
Category:Afghan poets
Category:Afghan writers
Category:Timurid Empire
Category:15th-century people