Publications of Alisher Navoi’s Khamsa: The Timeless Legacy of a Literary Giant

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This article discusses the early manuscript copies and editions of Alisher Navoi’s “Khamsa” epics. Additionally, it provides information on the published and unpublished editions to date. Some printed editions are also discussed. Keywords: “khamsa”, copy, prose statement, edition, printed edition, scientific critical text. Uzbekistan is closely related to the publication of works Introduction: Alisher Navoi’s works, even in his time, by the great Uzbek poet and thinker Alisher Navoi. The were copied in numerous manuscripts and widely preparation for publishing Navoi's works began in spread to near and distant regions. In this regard, it is 1938, linked to the celebration of the poet’s 500th worth quoting historian Khandamir’s thoughts about birthday. During the years of World War II, Uzbek the poet: “The clarity and lightness, adorned with specialists, in collaboration with leading Russian astonishing meanings, the richness of words and scholars, began compiling a scientific-critical text of simplicity, and the absence of any pretense made these Navoi's works. As a result, the “Khamsa” epics were artistic verses and perfectly adorned poems famous in prepared for publication for the first time in 1939-1940 such a short time that rulers from around the world by researchers from the Institute of Language and sent eloquent ambassadors to the capital of Herat, Literature. These editions were somewhat abridged, asking for these masterpieces of art” . annotated, and published in the Latin alphabet Even before Navoi finished writing the work, the alongside prose summaries. G'afur G'ulom, Solih prominent calligrapher (scribe) of Herat, Abdujamil, Mutallibov, G'ulom Karimov, Amin Umariy, began copying the manuscript. Working in close Husaynzoda, and To'xtasin Jalolov played significant collaboration with the poet, he completed the roles in this effort. Except for the Hayrat ul-abror, the manuscript, which became a beautiful example of 15th- Khamsa epics were re-published in 1948 in connection century calligraphy and one of the closest manuscripts with the celebration of the poet’s 500th anniversary, to the poet’s autograph . Afterward, other master this time without prose summaries, and in the Cyrillic scribes, such as Sultanali Mashhadi , continued copying alphabet. However, this edition was still abridged and these works , significantly contributing to the spread of lacked sufficient scholarly commentary. “Khamsa” across different regions. Thus, until the In 1944, Solih Mutallibov defended his candidate’s second half of the 19th century, Navoi’s great work was dissertation on the topic “Critical Text of Hayrat ul- disseminated in various cities and countries through abror” and prepared the first scientific-critical edition single handwritten manuscript copies produced by of the initial epic of the Khamsa, but was unable to patient and tireless scribes. publish it at the time. At the end of the 19th century, with the emergence of In 1945, G'ulom Karimov defended his candidate’s lithographic printing in Central Asia, this work was first dissertation on the topic “Research on the Critical Text printed in the city of Khiva . It was subsequently of Layli and Majnun” and prepared the scientific-critical published twice in Tashkent . edition of the epic, but it too remained unpublished. The development of scientific textual criticism in After World War II, Porso Shamsiyev began preparing American Journal Of Philological Sciences 76 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ajps American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) the critical texts of all five epics in the Khamsa for Hayitmetov and Ibrohim Haqqulov, based on the publication. He published the scientific-critical editions scientific-critical texts edited by Porso Shamsiyev. The of Sab‘ai Sayyor in 1956, Farhod va Shirin in 1963, and 2011 10-volume Complete Works of Alisher Navoi was Hayrat ul-abror in 1970. He also completed the prepared by Hamid Sulaymon and Sayfiddin scientific-critical texts of Layli va Majnun and Saddi Rafiddinov(navoiy xamsasi nashrlari). Iskandariy, but did not manage to publish them. Due to