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OUTSTANDING SCIENTISTS : THEIR 
CONTRIBUTION TO COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS 
AND LINGUODIDACTICS 
Alisher Navoi
. His real name is 
Nizomiddin Mir Alisher. He wrote his poems 
under the pen-names of Navoi (in his poems 
which were written in the old Uzbek 
language) and Foni (in his poems which were 
written in Persian language). Navoi is a great 
Uzbek poet, a representative of the Uzbek 
literature which is called Chigatoy leterature 
in the West. He was born in Herat and spent 
the main part of his life there. Navoi's family 
was close to Timurid's palace. According to 
the information of great historian Hondamir, 
an old poet Lutfi met with Alisher Navoi, 
when he was a child and Lutfi appreciated his 
talent. 
During 1464-65 the fans of Navoi's 
creation collected all of his poems and copied 
them to make "devon". Since 1469 Navoi had 
lived far from Herat because of the inside 
fights which were going in Timurid's state. 
Navoi's "Muhokamatu-l-lugatayn" is 
devoted to the comparative analysis of Turkish and Persian. His tazkira 
"Majolisun-nafois" was written in the way of literary criticism 
(Hayitmetov A. Alisher Navoiyning adabiy-tanqidiy qarashlari 
(Literary critic thoughts of Alisher Navoi). Tashkent, 1959). His 
"Mezon ul-avzon" was written about the theory of aruz, "Mufradot" was 
written about the rules of problems. 
Also he created the works called "Tarixi muluki ajam", "Tarixi 
anbiyo va hukamo". In the base of his collection called "Munshaot". In 
memorialistic genre he wrote "Hamsatu-l-mutaxayyirin" ("Besh 
hayrat") devoting to Abdurahmon Jomi (1494), "Holoti Sayyid Hasan 
Ardasher" (Sayyid Hasan Ardasher hayoti bayoni) and "Holoti 
Pahlavon Muhammad" (Pahlavon Muhammad hayoti bayoni). In 

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Navoi's nasriy work "Mahbubu-l-qulub" (1500) the social and political 
thoughts were expressed in high level. 
254 handwritings of 24 works of Navoi are kept in the Academy 
of Sciences of Uzbekistan, in the Institute of Oriental Languages (3rd 
fund) (Hakimov M. Navoi asarlari qo'lyozmalarining tavsifi. Toshkent, 
1983).