I︠A︡savi, Akhmed, 1103-1166

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Name (Hebrew)
יסאווי, קוז'ה אחמט, 1103-1166
Name (Latin)
I︠A︡savi, Akhmed, 1103-1166
Name (Arabic)
یسوی، خواجه احمد، 1103-1166
Name (Cyrilic)
Яссавий, Ахмад, ум. 1166
Other forms of name
Yasawi, Ahmad, -1166
Yasawi, Ahmad, d. 1166
Ahmed-i Yesevi, d. 1166
Yesevi, Ahmed, d.1166
IAsavi, Akhmed, d. 1166
Ясави, Ахмед, ум. 1166
Date of birth
1103
Date of death
1166
Field of activity
Poetry
Sufi poetry
Occupation
Poets
Associated Language
chgxqa
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 98317185
Wikidata: Q401543
Library of congress: n 82233569
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Wikipedia description:

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.

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