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Turkmen literature (Turkmen: Türkmen edebiýaty) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Old Oghuz Turkic and Turkmen languages. The Turkmens are direct descendants of the Oghuz Turks , who were a western Turkic people , who formed the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family .
Magtymguly Pyragy (Persian: مخدوم قلی فراغی Makhdumqoli [a] Farāghi; Turkmen: Magtymguly Pyragy; Turkmen pronunciation: [ˌmɑɣtɯmɢʊˈlɯ ˌpɯɾɑːˈɣɯ]; c. 1724 – 1807), [2] born Magtymguly, was an Iranian-Turkmen [3] spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller, who is considered the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history.
Turkmen literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in old Oghuz Turkic and Turkmen languages. Turkmens have joint claims to a great number of literary works written in Old Oghuz Turkic and Persian (by Seljuks in 11-12th centuries) languages with other people of the Oghuz Turkic origin, mainly of Azerbaijan and Turkey .
For most of the history of Turkish literature, the salient difference between the folk and the written traditions has been the variety of language employed. The folk tradition, by and large, was an oral tradition carried on by minstrels and remained free of the influence of Persian and Arabic literature, and consequently of those literatures ...
100 manat banknote of Turkmenistan depicting Oghuz Khan. Shajara-i Tarākima can be divided into three parts: information of a Quranic nature (the story of Adam); information based on the Oghuz-Turkmen epic, which includes the story of Oghuz Khan and his descendants, and information acquired through oral tradition about the origin, division and location of the Oghuz tribes (in particular, the ...
Merv produced a number of scholars in various branches of knowledge, such as Islamic law, Hadith, history, literature, and the like. Several scholars have the name: Marwazi (المروزي) designating them as hailing from Merv. But Saffarid rule was brief and they were defeated by Samanids in 901.
Döwletmämmet Azady (Persian: دولت محمد آزادى [2] Doulatmammed Āzādi; Turkmen: Döwletmämmet Azady) was a Turkmen poet [3] [1] and Sufi scholar. He is the father of poet Magtymguly Pyragy, the "father of Turkmen literature".
Turkoman, also known as Turcoman [note 1] (English: / ˈ t ɜːr k ə m ə n /), [2] was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages.Oghuz Turks were a western Turkic people that, in the 8th century A.D, formed a tribal confederation in an area between the Aral and Caspian seas in Central Asia, and spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.