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“Alisher Navoi and Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur are the great personalities of cultural heritage of the Temurid epoch”

On February 6 at 15:00 o’clock in the State Museum of the Temurid history  in collaboration with the Republic Center of Spirituality and  Enlightenmentwas held an event named “Alisher Navoi and Zahiriddin Muhammad  Babur are the great personalities of cultural heritage of the Temurid epoch” dedicated to the prominent leaders of the Temurid era the  577th-anniversary Alisher Navoi and the 535th- anniversary Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur.

Prominent connoisseurs of word come to the world especially in the moment of history, when artistic language is necessary to unite nations and rise of spiritual attitude. Alisher Navoi lived in this epoch. Our great ancestor did not limit himself to only Turkic language, but also he used other languages to write his poems.

In his work Pushkin used 21197 unique words, Shakespeare used about 20 thousand, Cervantes approximately a thousand, and Alisher Navoi used 1 million 378 thousand 660 delectable words. Our great poet used words not only in Turkic language , but also in Persian, Arabian, Urdu, Chinese, Mongole and others. Today Alisher Navoi is admitted as a prominent figure of the world culture. His works were translated into many languages of the world. There is a great interest in his heritage throughout the world. His generous ideas and philosophical attitude in his works give delight in present day.

Navoi became a well-known as the tsar of poetry, and Babur making his spiritual heir made a great contribution to the development of Turkic literature. He reproduced his skills not only in literature and science, but also was a great connoisseur of politics and prosperity of social life.Seemingly that the dream of AlisherNavoiy about an ideal governor in his “Khamsa” (“Quintuple”) found it’s reflection in Babur`s character.

In particular Babur having achieved a significant place in culture, literature and poetry of the east in the Middle Ages, but also he was a prominent statesman and a warlord. With a wide worldview and penetrating mind he created his great Baburidempirein India, and in the history of this nation Babur became a well-known as a statesman, and his wonderful work “Baburname” written in Uzbek language praised him as a scientist among the great historians of the world. His gazelles and rubayis written delicately are precious pearls of Turkic poetry. His treatises as “Mubayyin”, “ Hatti Baburiy”,’Aruz” made a deserving contribution to legislation of  Islam, poetry and theory of linguistics. Skillful creation of Babur reflecting the ideas of human disposition are accompanied by his life. In the creation of Babur in particular, in his poetry, artistically wereanalyzed the separation from his Motherland, alone fiery sorrow, nostalgia, strikes of fate and life torments, hard times.

The main purpose of carrying out this event is to propagandize younger generation and the population of all sections about  thegreat figures of spiritual heritage of the Temurid era Navoi and Babur, who left indelible print in the history of our nation, to introduce their tendency of life path as a justice, patriots of Motherland, humanity, as the creative and scientific heritage of these figures reflect not only in our national spirituality but also in world- wide scope.

Academy of sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, The State Museum of Timurids History
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