1. Ahmad Yasawi was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of Sufi orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world.
11 Facts About Ahmad Yasawi
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Ahmad Yasawi was a pioneer of popular mysticism, founded the first Turkic Sufi order, the Yasawiyya or Yeseviye, which very quickly spread over Turkic-speaking areas.
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Ahmad Yasawi was a Hanafi scholar like his murshid, Yusuf Hamadani.
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Ahmad Yasawi lost his father at the age of seven and was then raised by Arslan Baba.
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Ahmad Yasawi became the head murshid of the Naqshbandi order when Hassan-i Andaki died in 1160.
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Ahmad Yasawi then turned this position to Abdul Khaliq Ghijduwani under Hamadani's advice and moved to Turkistan City in order to spread Islam in Turkestan.
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Ahmad Yasawi made considerable efforts to spread Islam throughout Central Asia and had numerous students in the region.
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Ahmad Yasawi's poems created a new genre of religious folk poetry in Central Asian Turkic literature and influenced many religious poets in the following countries.
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Ahmad Yasawi turned the city of Iasy into the major centre of learning for the Kazakh Steppe, then retired to a life of contemplation at the age of 63.
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Ahmad Yasawi dug himself an underground cell where he spent the rest of his life.
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The people of Kazakhstan, a secular country that was the birthplace of Ahmad Yasawi, have built numerous monuments and have honored him in many other ways as well, including:.