A modern illustration of Ahmad Yasawi with Arystan Bab Mausoleum behind
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Born
1093 CE
Sayram, Kara-Khanid Khanate
Died
1166 CE (aged 72–73)
Turkistan, Kara-Khanid Khanate
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Sunni Islam (Hanafi)
Parent
Sheikh Ibrahim (father)
Era
Islamic Golden Age
Notable work(s)
Book of Wisdom
Known for
Poetry, Sufism, Diwan in Middle Turkic
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12th century
Influenced by
Arslan Baba, Yusuf Hamadani
Influenced
Yunus Emre, Haji Bektash Veli, Kockar Ata, Sarı Saltık, Magtymguly Pyragy, Idries Shah, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
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Ahmad Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, romanized: Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; Persian: خواجه اَحمدِ یَسوی, romanized: Khwāje Ahmad-e Yasavī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic[1][2] poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of Sufi orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world.[3] Yasawi is the earliest known Turkic poet who composed poetry in Middle Turkic.[4][5] He was a pioneer of popular mysticism, founded the first Turkic Sufi order, the Yasawiyya or Yeseviye, which very quickly spread over Turkic-speaking areas.[6] He was a Hanafi scholar like his murshid (spiritual guide), Yusuf Hamadani.[7]
^Ro'i, Yaacov (2000). Islam in the Soviet Union: From the Second World War to Gorbachev. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85065-403-2., page 373
^Richter, Fabian (2016). Identität, Ethnizität und Nationalismus in Kurdistan: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Ferhad Ibrahim Seyder (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 32. ISBN 978-3-643-13234-5.
^"Encyclopædia Britannica (2007): Related Articles to "Ahmed Yesevi, or Ahmad Yasawi, or Ahmed Yasavi (Turkish author)", accessed March 18, 2007". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2013-04-09.
^Book of Wisdom. World Digital Library. Lithographic Printing House of the Kazan Imperial University. 1904. p. 366.
^"Divan-i Khikmet". Kazakhstan National Commission For UNESCO - natcom.unesco.kz.
^I.Melikoff, 'Ahmad Yesevi and Turkic popular Islam' Archived 2006-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, EJOS, VI (2003), No. 8, 1-9, ISSN 0928-6802
^The Foundation of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 2, pp. 159-161 (in Turkish), İstanbul, 1989.
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