# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-shir-nava-i
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:28:42.336Z

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name: "Ali-Shir Nava'i"
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description: "He wrote poetry so powerful in a language scholars dismissed that it anchored an entire literary tradition. Nava'i made the case — in verse and argument — that Chagatai Turkic could do what Persian had done for centuries, and the Turkic-speaking world still calls him its founder."
tagline: "Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)"
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birthDate: "1441-02-09"
deathDate: "1501-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 9 February 1441 in the Timurid world, Nava'i moved through courts as poet, painter, statesman, and mystic. He held an uncommon conviction: that his native Chagatai was richer and more precise than Persian for literature, a claim he defended in "Muhakamat al-Lughatayn" (The Comparison of the Two Languages). His poetry in Chagatai became the proof. He died 3 January 1501, but the afterlife has been civic: Central Asia named a province, a city, institutions after him; monuments stand in Tashkent, Ankara, Tokyo, Moscow, a dozen other capitals. The case he made in verse became a canon.