NOTES ON THE LIFE AND CREATIVITY OF MIR ALI-SHIR NAVA’I

Аннотация

Francois Alphonse Belin (1817-1877) was a French scientist who worked in various positions at the French Consulate in the Ottoman Empire. He studied Arabic, Persian and Turkish. He published his works on the study of the history of the Ottomans and Eastern legislation. This article by Francois Belin was published in 1861 in the “Journal Asiatique” (Asian Journal). This article describes the life and work of Ali-Shir Nava'i, and it can be considered one of the first voluminous studies in the Western language devoted to Nava'i. F.Belin, when writing the article, made a conclusion based on primary sources covering the history of the Timurid period and the authentic works of Nava’i. The appearance of Belin’s article was of great importance in the middle of the 19th century, when there was little information on the work of Ali-Shir Nava’i. A part of this article by Belin is presented to the attention of readers. The article was translated from French into Uzbek by Ulugbek Mansurov. The article was edited and some comments were made by A.Erkinov. This article by Francois Belin is published in a special issue of the Journal of Central Asian Renaissance dedicated to the 580th anniversary of Ali-Shir Nava’i in the section "From the history of the study of Nava’i’s creativity in the West to the 21st century".