THE IMAGE OF IMITATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

Аннотация

This article is part of the book about Nava'i written by a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS – Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique), scientist-Turkologist, Dr. Mark Toutant (Toutant M. Un empire de mots. Pouvoir, culture et soufisme à l’époque des derniers Timourides au miroir de la Khamsa de Mīr ‘Alī Shīr Nawā’ī. Leuven: Peeters, 2016. Р.45-70). In 2013, Dr. Toutant defended his dissertation on the topic "The Culture of the Later Timurids: A study of the practice of imitation on the example of "Khamsa" by Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441-1501)". On the basis of the Marc Toutant's dissertation a monograph "The Empire of the Word: A Reflection of the Power, Culture and Sufism of the Later Timurids Era in the Ali-Shir Nava'i's "Khamsa" was published in Belgium in 2016. This article analyzes the interpretation and perception of the tradition of imitation in the work of Ali-Shir Nava'i in Western science. This article by Toutant 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 "Interpretation of Ali-Shir Nava'i’s heritage in the 21st century"