CULTURAL ENVIROMENT OF THE EPOC OF ALISHIR NAVAI (BASED ON THE BOOK "TIMURIDS IN TRANSITION" OF MARIA SUBTELNY)

This article is seeking to discuss about Maria Subtelny’s book “Timurids in Transition: TurkoPersian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran” talks about the Turko-Mongolian and Persian state administration in the 14-15 centuries Central Asia. The founder of the great Timurid dynasty Amir Timur established a legitimate empire with Turko-Mongolian yasa rules to a sedentary form of government with Persian-Islamic features. The transition required an enormous effort from Timur to transform a nomadic empire into a centralized, sedentary state. In doing so Timur accomplished to build a great empire with splendid cities and great hydraulic construction. His descendants, especially, Sultan Husayn Bayqara retained many features of their Turko-Mongolian cultural identity and PersoIslamic administration. Prominent statesman Alisher Navai’s pivotal role during Sultan Husayn Bayqara’s reign is an important part of the literary environment of the 15th century Herat.