ALI-SHIR NAVA’I AS THE FOUNTAINHEAD OF UZBEK LITERATURE (IN CELEBRATION OF THE 575TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF NAVA’I)

Аннотация

This article is a translation of the article by A.B.Kudelin "Ali-Shir Nava’i as the Fountainhead of Uzbek Literature (In Celebration of the 575th Birth Anniversary of Nava’i)". A.Kudelin (born in 1944) is a famous orientalist. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003). Doctor of Philological Sciences (1985). Author of a number of books on Arabic literature. Currently, he is the scholary director of the Gorkiy Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article proves the inappropriateness of the concept of "imitation" attributed by some Western scientists to the works of Ali-Shir Nava’i. The author of the article analyzes the features of traditionalism in the Eastern literature of the Islamic era. This article is translated from Russian into Uzbek by Dilshod Rasulov and Aftandil Erkinov. This article by Alexander Kudelin 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".