WRITER

Ahmad Yasawi

1103 - 1166

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Ahmad Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, romanized: Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋى; Persian: خواجه احمد یسوی, romanized: Khwāje Ahmad-e Yasavī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of Sufi orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world. Yasawi is the earliest known Turkic poet who composed poetry in Middle Turkic. 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. He was a Hanafi scholar like his murshid (spiritual guide), Yusuf Hamadani. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmad Yasawi is the 458th most popular writer (down from 354th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Writer.

Ahmad Yasawi is most famous for his book, The Book of Animals, which is a compilation of stories about animals and their characteristics.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 458 out of 7,302. Before him are Demetrius Vikelas, Jo Nesbø, Carl Spitteler, Louis Aragon, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Gabriela Mistral. After him are Baldassare Castiglione, Dan Brown, Samuel Butler, Statius, Thomas Bernhard, and Alejandro Jodorowsky.

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Among people born in 1103, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 2. Before him is Matilda of Boulogne. After him are Harald Gille, William Adelin, Emperor Toba, Aénor de Châtellerault, Alfonso Jordan, André de Montbard, Adeliza of Louvain, Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily, Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon, and Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia. Among people deceased in 1166, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 2. Before him is Abdul Qadir Gilani. After him are Saint Rosalia, William I of Sicily, Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Provence, Constantine Angelos, and Yasovarman II.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 4 out of 193. Before him are Tomyris (-600), Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940), and Seljuk (902). After him are Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), Muhammad Shaybani (1451), Lavr Kornilov (1870), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), and Edigu (1352).

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Among WRITERS In Kazakhstan

Among writers born in Kazakhstan, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 1. After him are Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Mukaghali Makatayev (1931), Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841), Vsevolod Ivanov (1895), Saken Seifullin (1894), Alexander Volkov (1891), Alexander Kazantsev (1906), and Sergei Lukyanenko (1968).

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