ALISHER NAVOI – A GREAT REPRESENTATIVE OF TURKIC LITERATU

Abstract

Alisher Navoi is a great poet, thinker, and statesman who holds a special place in the history of Turkic literature. He lived and created in the 15th century and made a great contribution to the development of the Turkic language and literature through his rich literary heritage. In his works, Navoi promoted the ideas of humanism, justice, love, and spiritual purity.The work of Alisher Navoi is very diverse: he created ghazals, epics (dastans), rubai, and scholarly works. One of his most famous works is the Khamsa, which includes five epics. In these works, the poet deeply reveals themes such as human virtues, love, loyalty, and justice.Navoi’s epics such as Farhad and Shirin and Layli and Majnun had a great influence on the development of the romantic epic genre in Turkic literature. These works became a source of inspiration not only in his time but also for many poets and writers of later centuries. Navoi demonstrated the wide possibilities of the Turkic language and raised it to the level of a high artistic language.