Ahmad Yasawi
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Ahmad Yasawi was a 12th-century Turkic Sufi mystic and poet whose teachings deeply influenced the spread and development of Islam and Sufism in Central Asia and the Turkic world.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ahmad Yasawi canonical | 11 |
| Ahmet Yesevi | 3 |
| Khoja Ahmed Yasawi | 3 |
| Ahmad Yasawi as a saint | 1 |
| Khoja Ahmad Yasawi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3737431 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Ahmad Yasawi Context triple: [Ahmet Yesevi, name, Ahmad Yasawi]
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Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi was a 12th-century Persian poet renowned for his romantic epic masterpieces, especially the Khamsa (Quintet), which profoundly influenced Persian and wider Islamic literature.
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Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani was an influential 11th-century Ismaili theologian and philosopher known for his sophisticated metaphysical and cosmological writings within the Fatimid intellectual tradition.
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Mir Ali Tabrizi
Mir Ali Tabrizi was a renowned 14th-century Persian calligrapher credited with pioneering the elegant Nastaʿlīq script that became the classical style of Persian writing.
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Abd al-Latif Mirza
Abd al-Latif Mirza was a Timurid prince and short-reigning ruler of Samarkand in the mid-15th century, known for his involvement in the dynastic struggles that followed the fragmentation of Timur’s empire.
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Farid ud-Din Attar
Farid ud-Din Attar was a 12th–13th century Persian Sufi poet and mystic best known for his allegorical masterpiece "The Conference of the Birds," which profoundly shaped later Sufi literature and thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ahmad Yasawi Target entity description: Ahmad Yasawi was a 12th-century Turkic Sufi mystic and poet whose teachings deeply influenced the spread and development of Islam and Sufism in Central Asia and the Turkic world.
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A.
Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi was a 12th-century Persian poet renowned for his romantic epic masterpieces, especially the Khamsa (Quintet), which profoundly influenced Persian and wider Islamic literature.
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B.
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani was an influential 11th-century Ismaili theologian and philosopher known for his sophisticated metaphysical and cosmological writings within the Fatimid intellectual tradition.
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C.
Mir Ali Tabrizi
Mir Ali Tabrizi was a renowned 14th-century Persian calligrapher credited with pioneering the elegant Nastaʿlīq script that became the classical style of Persian writing.
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D.
Abd al-Latif Mirza
Abd al-Latif Mirza was a Timurid prince and short-reigning ruler of Samarkand in the mid-15th century, known for his involvement in the dynastic struggles that followed the fragmentation of Timur’s empire.
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E.
Farid ud-Din Attar
Farid ud-Din Attar was a 12th–13th century Persian Sufi poet and mystic best known for his allegorical masterpiece "The Conference of the Birds," which profoundly shaped later Sufi literature and thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim theologian
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Sufi mystic ⓘ Turkic poet ⓘ founder of Sufi order ⓘ poet ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Islamization of Turkic nomads
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Yasawiyya order ⓘ popular piety among Turkic peoples ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 12th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | pilgrimage practices in Central Asia ⓘ |
| culturalRole | key figure of Turkic Islamic culture ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 12th century ⓘ |
| denomination | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Turkic ⓘ |
| founderOf | Yasawiyya order ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ahmad Yasawi
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Khoja Ahmad Yasawi
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| genre | mystical poetry ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Khoja ⓘ |
| impact |
influencing later Turkic Sufi poets
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shaping Turkic Islamic identity ⓘ |
| influenced |
Islam in the Turkic world
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Sufism in the Turkic world ⓘ development of Sufism in Central Asia ⓘ spread of Islam in Central Asia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ascetic teachings
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didactic Sufi poetry ⓘ popularizing Sufism among Turkic peoples ⓘ |
| languageOfPoetry | Turkic ⓘ |
| legacy | strong Sufi traditions in Central Asia ⓘ |
| majorWork | Divan-i Hikmet ⓘ |
| movement | Yasawiyya ⓘ |
| name | Ahmad Yasawi self-link ⓘ |
| region | Central Asia ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| spiritualDiscipline | asceticism ⓘ |
| spiritualLineage | Central Asian Sufi tradition ⓘ |
| sufiAffiliation | Sufism ⓘ |
| teachingFocus |
inner purification
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love of God ⓘ remembrance of God ⓘ |
| teachingMethod | poetry in vernacular Turkic ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | Sufi saint ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Central Asia
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Kazakhstan ⓘ |
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Subject: Ahmad Yasawi Description of subject: Ahmad Yasawi was a 12th-century Turkic Sufi mystic and poet whose teachings deeply influenced the spread and development of Islam and Sufism in Central Asia and the Turkic world.
Referenced by (19)
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