Alisher Navoiy

Alisher Navoiy was born on 9 February 1441 in Herat, into a family of Turkic scribes in the service of the Timurids. A schoolmate of Husayn Bayqara, he became his vizier in 1472 and supported the scholars of his court, among them the poet Jami. He had caravanserais, mosques, baths and bridges built at his own expense, and wrote some thirty works, in Chagatai under the name Navoiy and in Persian under the name Fani, including a treatise, completed in 1499, that defends Turkic against Persian. He did not marry and died in Herat on 3 January 1501.

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• PoetryLayli va MajnunAlisher Navoiy · 1484not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain