The Yasaviyya in the Nasāʾim al-maḥabba of ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī: A Case Study in Central Asian Hagiography
The Timurid statesman and poet ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī (d. 906/1501) was the author of the first biographical dictionary (taẕkira) of Sufi saints to be written in the Central Asian dialect of Chaghatay Turkic. Although he started it as a translation of Nafaḥāt al-uns by Jāmī, he expanded upon that work by...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Journal of Sufi studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 38-66 |
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Aḥmad Yasavī
ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī
biography
genealogy
hagiography
Nasāʾim al-maḥabba
Sufism
taẕkira
translation
Yasaviyya
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