Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
As is known, Nizam al-Din Alisher Navoi (1441–1501), the great Uzbek poet, statesman and patron, left a huge literary heritage.
The most famous are his collections of lyric poems (divan) and a cycle of five poems, the Khamsa (Quintet). Mathnavi poems were created as imitations-nazira on similar stories of the poems by Nizami and Amir Khusraw Dihlavi. The works of Navoi and other poets were often copied in separate books, but sometimes kulliyat collections were made from different writings.
The Kulliyat is certainly not complete. It begins traditionally with “Chihil Hadith” (“Forty Hadith”) and “Nazm al-Javahir” (“Threading of Pearls”), it is then followed by four poems of the Quintet: “Hairat al-Abrar” (“Amazement for the Pious”); “Farhad va Shirin”; “Laili va Majnun” and “Sab‘a Sayara” (“Seven planets/travelers”). The fifth poem is missing.
It is possible that the Kulliyat was copied in Herat at the end of the 15 th or beginning of the 16 th c., then it was taken to Mawarannahr and eventually ended up with Keldi-Muhammad, the local ruler of Shahrukhiya. Illustrations were added in 1520s; at least, the first miniature has the date 928 / 1521 – 1522. There are 6 miniatures in the first poem, 7 in the second, 4 in the third, and 8 in the fourth.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Arts of the book in the 15th–17th-century Mawarannahr" (Volume XVII) in the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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