Ahmad Yasawi

Sayyid
Khawaja
Hadrat-i Turkistan
Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Ilyas Yasawi
Sayyid; Khawaja; Hadrat-i Turkistan Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Ilyas Yasawi
قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ
	A modern illustration of Ahmad Yasawi with Arystan Bab Mausoleum behind
Personal
Born	1093 CE; Sayram, Kara-Khanid Khanate
Died	1166 CE (aged 72–73); Turkistan, Kara-Khanid Khanate
Religion	Sunni Islam (Hanafi)
Parent	Sheikh Ibrahim (father);
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Notable work(s)	Book of Wisdom
Known for	Poetry, Sufism, Diwan in Middle Turkic
Senior posting
Period in office	12th century
	Influenced by Arslan Baba, Yusuf Hamadani;
	Influenced Yunus Emre, Haji Bektash Veli, Kockar Ata, Sarı Saltık, Magtymguly Pyragy, Idries Shah, Yahya Kemal Beyatlı;

Ahmad Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, romanized: Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; Persian: خواجه اَحمدِ یَسوی, 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.

[1] 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

[2] 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.

[3] "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-4] Book of Wisdom. Lithographic Printing House of the Kazan Imperial University. 1904. p. 366. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[Divan-i_Khikmet-5] "Divan-i Khikmet". Kazakhstan National Commission For UNESCO - natcom.unesco.kz.

[6] 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

[TDV-7] The Foundation of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 2, pp. 159-161 (in Turkish), İstanbul, 1989.

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