# Ahmad Yasawi

> A 12th-century Sufi mystic who wrote the first known poetry in a Turkic language and founded a religious order that swept across Central Asia.

*Sufi Poet*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/ahmad-yasawi

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1100
- **Died:** 1166
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Ahmad Yasawi was born in 1093 into a Turkic-speaking world where mystical poetry had yet to find its vernacular voice. He studied under the spiritual guide Yusuf Hamadani, becoming a Hanafi scholar before turning toward popular mysticism — the kind that spoke to ordinary people, not just the learned. He composed his verse in Middle Turkic, making him the earliest known poet to write in a Turkic language rather than Arabic or Persian. That linguistic choice was also a spiritual one: he founded the Yasawiyya, the first Turkic Sufi order, which spread rapidly through the regions where his language was understood. He died in 1166, but the order he created became a template for Sufi practice across the Turkic-speaking world for centuries.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 2.7 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.1 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Global rank:** #135
- **Category rank:** #175

## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Poetry, #Literature, #Medieval Era

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Yasawi)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q401543)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Ahmad%20Yasawi)
- [Əhməd Yəsəvi](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8Fhm%C9%99d_Y%C9%99s%C9%99vi)
- [Әхмәт Йәсәүи](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D3%98%D1%85%D0%BC%D3%99%D1%82_%D0%99%D3%99%D1%81%D3%99%D2%AF%D0%B8)
- [Ахмед Ясаві](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96)
- [আহমদ ইয়াসাভী](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%80)
- [Ahmed Yesevi](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yesevi)
- [Ahmad Yasavi](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Yasavi)
- [خواجه احمد یسوی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%87_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C)
- [Ahmed Jasawi](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Jasawi)
- [Ahmed Yasavi](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yasavi)
- [קוז'ה אחמט יסאווי](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%96'%D7%94_%D7%90%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%98_%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99)
- [Ahmad Yasawi](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Yasawi)
- [Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khwaja_Ahmad_Yasavi)
- [アフマド・ヤサヴィー](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC)
- [Xoja Axmet Yasawiy](https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoja_Axmet_Yasawiy)
- [აჰმედ იასავი](https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%B0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%93_%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%98)
- [Қожа Ахмет Ясауи](https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%9A%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B0_%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B8)
- [Ахмед Яссави](https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4_%D0%AF%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8)
- [Ahmad Yasawi](https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Yasawi)
- [Ahmad Yasawi](https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Yasawi)
- [Ahmed Yasawi](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Yasawi)
- [Chodża Ahmad Jasawi](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chod%C5%BCa_Ahmad_Jasawi)
- [خواجہ احمد یسوی](https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AC%DB%81_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C6%8Fhm%C9%99d_Y%C9%99s%C9%99vi)
- [Wikiquote](https://uz.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ahmad_Yassaviy)
- [خوجة أحمد يسوي](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A9_%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A)
- [خوجا احمد یسوی](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C)

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