# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yusuf-balasaguni
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:53.493Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/yusuf-balasaguni"
name: "Yūsuf Balasaguni"
slug: "yusuf-balasaguni"
description: "An 11th-century Turkic poet and vizier who left almost no trace beyond the manuscript he wrote himself — the Kutadgu Bilig, a mirror-for-princes text from the Kara-Khanid court that became one of the oldest surviving works in a Turkic language."
tagline: "Turkic poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Y%C5%ABsuf_Balasaguni_on_1000_som_note.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1019"
deathDate: "1077"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.323588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "writer-author"
  - name: "Poetry"
    slug: "poetry"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Yusuf Khass Hajib lived in Balasaghun, capital of the Kara-Khanid Khanate in what is now Kyrgyzstan, where he served as a statesman and vizier. He was also a Maturidi theologian and philosopher. In the 11th century he composed the Kutadgu Bilig, a long didactic poem in a Turkic language. Nearly everything known about his life comes from what he wrote within that work itself — the text is both his legacy and his only real biography.