Ali-Shir Nava'i
Also known as Alisher Navoi, Mīr `Alī Shīr, 'Alishir Nava'i, `Alishir Nava'i, Mīr 'Alī Shīr, `Alīshīr Navā'ī, 'Alīshīr Navā'ī, Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī
Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)
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Ali-Shir Nava'i was a Turkic poet and politician who lived from 1441 to 1501 and became one of the most important literary figures of his time. He is significant because he elevated Turkic language literature to a level of prestige that had previously been reserved for Persian, helping establish Turkic as a major literary language in Central Asia.
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Mystics in a garden, an illustration to Sadd-i Iskandari by Qasim Ali. Herat, c. 1485. 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.