On the genesis of “Khamsa” by Nizami Ganjavi and Alisher Navoi

Abstract

The article “On the genesis of “Khamsa” by Nizami Ganjavi and Alisher Navoi” examines the work of poets who played a decisive role in the formation and development of the great Azerbaijani and Uzbek poets Nizami Ganjavi and A. Navoi as an artist. For the first time, a comparative analysis of the origins and literary, religious and philosophical sources of creativity of two great artists of the East is carried out. It is emphasized that Eastern and Western cultures coexist in the formation of the work of Nizami Ganjavi. It is clear from the above analysis that Nizami was inextricably linked with the great works of art that came after him, as well as with the majestic sacred written monuments that preceded him.
The next stage in the history of common Turkic artistic thought is the transition to Islamic-Eruz poetics in the 13th-15th centuries, and the most prominent representative of this stage is the great Uzbek poet A. Navoi. Considering that during this period the process of transition of Turkish poets from traditional and native syllabic poetry to Arabic-Persian poetics took place, it can be imagined that A. Navoi's predecessors fulfilled an extremely responsible national task. At the same time, the main literary-aesthetic and socio-philosophical sources of Navoi's Khamsa, considered the highest peak of Navoi's creativity and the Turkic-speaking classical epic in general, are examples of the epic that arose in this period after the monuments of Persian verbal art. Along with oriental classics such as N. Ganjavi, A.Kh. Dehlevi, A. Jami and others, Qutb, Mevlana Lutfi, Heydar Kharezmi, Durbek and other famous artists played a decisive role in the development of the Turkic-speaking artistic thought and they were powerful predecessors of the great Navoi.