1901 MANUSCRIPT in CHAGATAI TURKI LANGUAGE ISLAMIC BOOK antique POETRY

Collection of essays and poetry used for private use of Mullah who collected important for him quotations and materials.


Text in Chagatai Language, Shikaste script

Purchased in Uzbekistan

Size 7 by 10 3/4"

Nice calligraphy

145 lvs (=290 pp)

Original binding with embossed medallions.

Some wear, dampstains

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Chagatai[a] , also known as Turki,  Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic , is an extinct Turkic literary language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia and remained the shared literary language there until the early 20th century.
It was used across a wide geographic area including parts of modern-day Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Literary Chagatai is the predecessor of the modern Karluk branch of Turkic languages, which include Uzbek and Uyghur.
Turkmen, which is not within the Karluk branch but in the Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, was nonetheless heavily influenced by Chagatai for centuries.

Ali-Shir Nava'i was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature.


Lizheng Gate at the Chengde Mountain Resort. The second column from the left is the Chagatai language written in Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script.
Chagatai literature is still studied in modern Uzbekistan, where the language is seen as the predecessor and the direct ancestor of modern Uzbek, and the literature is regarded as part of the national heritage of Uzbekistan.

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