Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Ilyas Yasawi | |
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خواجه احمد یسوی | |
 A modern illustration of Ahmad Yasawi with Arystan Bab Mausoleum behind | |
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| Born | 1093 CE |
| Died | 1166 CE (aged 72–73) Turkistan, Kara-Khanid Khanate |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Notable work(s) | Book of Wisdom |
| Known for | Poetry, Sufism, Diwan in Middle Turkic |
| Senior posting | |
| Period in office | 12th century |
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Ahmad Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, romanized: Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; Persian: خواجه احمد یسوی, 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. Lithographic Printing House of the Kazan Imperial University. 1904. p. 366.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "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.