Ahmad Yasawi
Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Ilyas Yasawi | |
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خواجه احمد یسوی | |
A modern illustration of Ahmad Yasawi with Arystan Bab Mausoleum behind | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1093 CE |
| Died | 1166 CE (aged 72–73) Turkistan, Kara-Khanid Khanate |
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| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Notable work(s) | Book of Wisdom |
| Known for | Poetry, Sufism, Diwan in Middle Turkic |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Senior posting | |
| Period in office | 12th century |
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Ahmad Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, romanized: Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋى; Persian: خواجه احمد یسوی, romanized: Khwāje Ahmad-e Yasavī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of Sufi orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world. Yasawi is the earliest known Turkic poet who composed poetry in Middle Turkic. He was a pioneer of popular mysticism, founded the first Turkic Sufi order, the Yasawiyya or Yeseviye, which very quickly spread over Turkic-speaking areas. He was a Hanafi scholar like his murshid (spiritual guide), Yusuf Hamadani.