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Makhdumi A’zam played an important role in the spiritual development of Zahiriddin Muhammad Babur. He used to send letters and presents to his spiritual leader. As an answer to these letters, Makhdumi A’zam wrote a monographic research work titled as “Risalai Baburiya”. Makhdumi A’ zam had great authority and honour …

Makhdumi A’zam lived at a time when social and economic conditions in Central Asia were suffering great crises and the area was being divided into several small khanates where different laws were in use because of the destruction of the Temurid dynasty. Consequently, robbery and breaches of law were flourishing …

Makhdumi A’zam was a great representative of Sufism and the Naqshbandiya order of the 15th-16th centuries. He was a theorist and successor of these trends in religion, a philosopher and a scholar in the fields of morality and law. He was a politician with great influence on public. He also …

Highly appreciating the ability of Kamaliddin Behzad, the king of Iran Ismail Safavi made orders to provide the artist with all the facilities and necessary conditions needed for Behzad s creative work in Tabriz. A group of his students and followers also accompanied him on his way to Tabriz and …

As the other sources inform us, Kamaliddin Behzad was in good and close relations with the great thinker, philosopher, scholar and poet of his time Abdurrahman Jami, who had been educated in the spiritual environment of Herat and was one of the masters and closest friends of Alisher Navai. Behzad …

The biography of Kamaliddin Behzad Born in 1455 in Herat in the family of a craftsman Kamaliddin Behzad was a great artist of the East who left a noticeable trace in the culture and art of not only eastern countries but also in the history of world culture and made …

The time of life and creative activities of His Eminency Kama-liddin Behzad corresponds to the last fifty years of the Temurid princes’ reign (1370-1506) in Central Asia, Muhammad Shaybani Khan’s reign (1506) in Maveraunnahr and Khorasan, the reign of the representative of the Safavid dynasty ^Shah Ismail in Azerbaijan and …

Davlatshah Samarqandi’s “Tazkira” has long been attracting the attention of the public. Since 1819, some pieces of the book have been published in Russia (by V.A. Jhukovski and F. Erdman), in France (by Silvestre de Sasi), in England (by E. Broun and A. Falconer), in Turkey (by Fahim Suleiman afandi), …

“Tazkirat ash-shuara” or “Tazkirati Davlatshahi” consists of a preface, conclusions and seven parts. The preface explains the reasons for writing the book and provides information about the life and creative activities of ten Arab poets (Labid (the 7th century), Abu Nuvas (died in 814), Abu Jayyib al-Mutanabbi (died in 963), …

One of the famous literary men of the 15th century was Davlat-shah ibn Alauddavla Bakhtshah al-Ghazi as-Samarqandi. Information dealing with his biography is very little but according to some information mentioned in his book “Tazkirat ash-shuara” (Charac­teristics of poets), he was born in the family of a well-known military leader …