MEDIEVAL PERSIAN AND TURKIC LITERATURES IN THE CONTEXT OF ISLAMIC RENAISSANCE

Comparative study of traditions formed within the Turkic and the Persian literatures in the context of Islamic renaissance is of great importance due to the fact that the Turkic and Persian peoples for a long time have been living together in a single political and economic area. Because of that they have more in common, rather than differences in the literature. Traditions laid by brilliant representatives of the literatures of the Turkic and Persian peoples such as Firdowsi, Nizami, Yusuf Balasaghuni, Akhmad Yugnaki, who contributed to development of the world culture, were developed by their followers in the latest periods. New generations of poets introduced new genres and themes into the literature, new trends and artistic approaches and thus enriched it. Classical Persian-Tajik poetry played an important part in emergence and development of the written poetic genre forms. Persian traditions were adopted and developed based on Turkic poetry by such authors as Lutfi, Sakkaki, Ata’i, Navoi, Babur etc. Many of them used the experience and learned from well-known poets not only of the Turkic world , but also those authors who wrote in Farsi.