Khamseh

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Chagatai literature

  • Bābur inspecting a garden, portrait miniature from the Bābur-nāmeh, 16th century; in the British Library.
    In Chagatai literature

    His Khamseh demonstrates his centrality to the Chagatai literary tradition. It consists of a set of five masnawis: Khayrat ul-abrār (1483; “The Best of the Righteous”), Farhād u Shīrīn (1484; “Farhād and Shīrīn”), Leylī u Majnūn (1484; “Leylī and Majnūn”), Sebʿa-i seyyāra (1484; "The Seven Planets"),…

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