The Scientific Researches Made in Turkey on the Works of Alisher Navoi

Having a long history and great accumulation, the Turks naturally raised many cultural men, poets, writers and scholars. The Turkish language, which we have seen as a written language since the eighth century, has been processed and developed with the pen of hundreds of artists, and has created a strong tradition and constantly trained new artists in different geographies. The religious change that followed the Köktürk and Uyghur periods gave a new excitement to the society and great people such as Balasagunlu Yusuf, Kaşgarli Mahmut, Yüknekli Ahmet and Hoca Ahmet Yesevi brought vitality to the Turkish language with their valuable works. In the fifteenth century, a great man of culture such as Ali Şir Nevâyî was raised in the tradition of culture and civilization enriched by these people.Born on February 9, 1441, Ali Şir Nevâyî has an important place in the history of thousands of years of Turkish culture. Being as the greatest poet of classical Chagatai literature and due to the works he wrote , Ali Şir Nevayi went down in history as the first person to give his name to a language by calling the language of his time as “Nevâyî Language”.At the beginning of almost all the works he wrote, Nevâyî needs to explain why he wrote in Turkish language by writing; “Such works are many in Arabic and Persian, but I wrote in Turkish so that the Turks would learn these subjects”. His thought shows that he knew quite well what language meant to a nation and how he grasped the meaning of the language imposed to the language in the twentieth century back in the fifteenth century .Nevâyî influenced Western Turkish with the works he wrote in Eastern Turkish, his works were transferred to Western Turkish, their constructions were made and dictionaries were started to be written in order to understand his works. Known by the Western Turks since Nevayi was alive, several studies have been done and still continue to be done in Turkey. The abundance of scientific publications, the related works and prensence of written dictionaries in order to understand Nevayi’s works in Turkish libaraies show how much Nevayi is important and how much of his value known by the Turks. In this study, Nevayi’s works in Turkish libraries and scientific studies about them will be introduced and aforementioned scientific studies and scientific publications will be explained.

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