February 20 – 930th Anniversary of the Birth of the Philosopher and Scholar Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166) was a great poet, the founder of Sufi poetry, a great thinker, and a religious figure who was the spiritual teacher of Muslims everywhere under the rising sun.
Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166) was a great poet, the founder of Sufi poetry, a great thinker, and a religious figure who was the spiritual teacher of Muslims everywhere under the rising sun. The poet's birthplace is in the present-day city of Turkistan.
His extensive work «Diwani Hikmet» (Book of Wisdom), which has survived to our time, was written in the Kipchak dialect of the Old Turkic language. Only a copy from the 15th–16th centuries has come down to us. Khoja Ahmed Yasawi created a model of oral and figurative poetry in the Turkic language and proved that Turkic languages can be used to create works of art.
His extensive work «Diwani Hikmet» (Book of Wisdom), which has survived to our time, was written in the Kipchak dialect of the Old Turkic language. Only a copy from the 15th–16th centuries has come down to us. Khoja Ahmed Yasawi created a model of oral and figurative poetry in the Turkic language and proved that Turkic languages can be used to create works of art.