Stories of Alisher Navoi and Rizoi Payvandi (On the Example of “Lison ut-tayr” and “Qush Tili” (The Language of Birds))

Abstract

In Uzbek literature, the study of epics of the genre “Mantiq ut-tayr” is associated with the study of Alisher Navoi’s epic “Lison ut-tayr” and has always been in the spotlight of experts. Mawlana Khoja Qazi Payvandi Rizoi (XVIII acp) was another writer who wrote in Turkish on the theme “Mantiq ut-tayr”. The only manuscript of the epic “Qush tili”(The Language of Birds) created by him is kept in the fund of the State Museum of Literature named after Alisher Navoi under inventory number 127. Rizoi Payvandi used the works of Jalaliddin Rumi, Fariduddin Attor, Abdurahman Jami in the creation of this epic, as well as carefully studied Alisher Navoi’s epic “Lison ut-tayr”. Because the comparison of Rizoi’s epic with Alisher Navoi’s work shows that in the plot of a number of stories in both epics we see the closeness to each other and in most places the artistic interpretation of the same story, which is characteristic of both creators.