Yūsuf Balasaguni
Turkic poet
- Fame52.9
- Momentum0.0
- Writers rank#60
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- Fame52.9
- Momentum0.0
- Writers rank#60
- Wikipedia3.4K
Lived 1019–1077, aged 58
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Updated 2026-06-09
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.
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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.
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