There are probably quite a few people who have never heard of Khodja Nasreddin, especially in the Muslim Orient. His name is mentioned in friendly conversations, in political speeches and …
Jaloliddin Manguberdi
Jaloliddin Manguberdi (Jalal al-Dunya wa-din Abu-l-Muzaffar Mankburni ibn Muhammad) (1199-1231) was the last Shah of Khorezmia (from 1220) and the eldest son of Ala al-Din Muhammad II and his Turkmen …
Ahmad Yasawi
Ahmad Yasawi (1103-1166) was a Central Asian Sufi poet and preacher. He wrote in Chaghatai. He is the author of a collection of mystical spiritual poems entitled “Hikmat” (ed. 1878). …
Bahauddin Naqshbandi
Bahauddin Naqshbandi, a Sufi Teacher, is considered the founder of the most important Naqshbandiya Sufi Order. He was born on the 14th of Muharram in the year 717 according to …
Omar Khayyam
His full name is Giyas al-Din Fath ibn Ibrahim Omar Khayyam Nishapuri. Omar Khayyam was a world-famous classic of Persian-Tajik poetry, scientist, mathematician, astronomer, poet and philosopher. The creative work …
Amir Temur
Amir Temur is a military leader and ruler who has played an important role in the history of Central, South and West Asia as well as the Caucasus, the Volga …
Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur
Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur was a great Uzbek poet, philosopher, historian and statesman; the founder of the Baburid dynasty and empire. Among the scientific works of Babur, the special place hold …
Alisher Navoi
Alisher Navoi (1441-1501) was a great poet and thinker, a statesman. His full name was Nizomiddin Mir Alisher. He wrote poetry under the pseudonym Navoi in both Chagatai (ancient Uzbek …
Mirzo Ulugbek
Mirzo Muhammad ibn Shahrukh ibn Timur Ulugbek Guragan is a great astronomer and mathematician, an outstanding scientist of his time, statesman, grandson of the famous ruler and military ruler Amir …
Shahrukh Mirza
Muin al-Haqq wa-din Shahrukh Mirza (from Arabic ruh (“soul”) and Persian šāh (“king”) – the fourth son of Amir Temur, ruler of Khorasan (since 1397), the Timurid state (since 1409) …
Matmurod Devonbegi of Khanate Khiva
Matmurod Devonbegi (also known as Muhammad-Murod-Devonbegi Sheikh-Nazar-Yasaulbashi-Öghli, Mat-Murad, Mohammed-Murad, Mad-Murad, Mahmud-Murad Sheikhnazar-ogli, Madmurad Sheikhnazar-ogly) was born in 1830 in Khiva, Dishan-Kala, in the family of a high-ranking official of the …