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Ali-Shir Nava'i

1441 - 1501

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'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī (Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, Persian: نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature. Nava'i believed that his native Chagatai Turkic language was superior to Persian for literary purposes, an uncommon view at the time and defended this belief in his work titled Muhakamat al-Lughatayn (The Comparison of the Two Languages). He emphasized his belief in the richness, precision and malleability of Turkic vocabulary as opposed to Persian. Due to his distinguished Chagatai language poetry, Nava'i is considered by many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to be the founder of early Turkic literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ali-Shir Nava'i is the 386th most popular writer (up from 393rd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Afghan Writer.

Ali-shir nava'i is most famous for his poem "The Book of Kings" which is a retelling of the story of Rustam and Sohrab from the Shahnameh.

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Among writers, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 386 out of 7,302. Before him are Margaret Mitchell, Appian, Karl May, Sayyid Qutb, Constantine P. Cavafy, and Alphonse de Lamartine. After him are Julio Cortázar, Auguste Escoffier, Cornelius Nepos, Elena Ferrante, Sylvia Plath, and Paul Éluard.

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Among people born in 1441, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 1. After him are Danjong of Joseon, Topa Inca Yupanqui, Charlotte of Savoy, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Antonio de Nebrija, Francisco de Borja, and Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1501, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 1. After him are John I Albert, Agostino Barbarigo, Gaspar Corte-Real, Mesih Pasha, Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria, Pero Escobar, Konstantin Mihailović, Constantine Lascaris, Margaret of Thuringia, and Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 20 out of 177. Before him are Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Dost Mohammad Khan (1793), Abu Dawood (817), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), and Mohammed Omar (1962). After him are Muhammad Shah (1702), Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), Babrak Karmal (1929), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), and Hafizullah Amin (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

Among writers born in Afghanistan, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 2. Before him are Rumi (1207). After him are Khaled Hosseini (1965), Sanai (1080), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Unsuri (980), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Niloofar Rahmani (1992), and Nadia Ghulam (1985).

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