PERCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION OF CREATIVITY OF ALISHER NAVOI IN FRENCH ORIENTAL STUDIES

Abstract

The great Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi (1441-1501), during his lifetime, was widely known not only in his homeland, but also far beyond its borders. A contemporary and biographer of Navoi, the famous historian Hondemir, of course, not without some hyperbole, wrote: "He (Navoi - M.Kh.) in a short time took the cane of primacy from his peers; the fame of his talents spread to all ends of the world, and the stories of the firmness of his noble mind from mouth to mouth were innumerable.The pearls of his poetry adorned the leaves of the Book of Fates, the precious stones of his poetry filled the shells of the universe with pearls of beauty.

Navoi himself in the poem "Farhad and Shirin" proudly wrote that to "capture countries he did not send troops, but his works, which conquered the hearts of the people of these countries." Indeed, Navoi was the founder of the classical (Renaissance style) poetry in ancient Uzbek ("Chagatai") language. This same creation of a large classical literature in the vernacular was one of the greatest achievements of Western Europe during the Renaissance. By the way, the founders and theorists of the new Renaissance literature Dante, R. Bacon, E. Dolet, Du Bellay, M. Luther, and others have repeatedly defended classical literature in the popular language. Alisher Navoi also spoke out in defense of Uzbek literature.