# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-yasawi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:14:49.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-yasawi"
name: "Ahmad Yasawi"
slug: "ahmad-yasawi"
description: "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."
tagline: "Sufi Poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahmad_Yasawi_miniature.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1100"
deathDate: "1166"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.72233041220383
  historical:           23.09777733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   135
  country:  null
  category: 175
tags:
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    slug: "writers"
  - name: "Writer / Author"
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  - name: "Poetry"
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  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.