1441-1501 AF, Herat
Mīr 'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAlī-Shīr Herawī (Chagatai-Turkic/Persian: نظامالدین علىشير هروی) was a Central Asian poet, writer, politician, linguist, mystic, and painter. He was the greatest representative of Chagatai (Old Uzbek) literature.Nava'i believed that the Turkic language was superior to Persian for literary purposes, and defended this belief in his work. He emphasized his belief in the richness, precision, and malleability of Turkic vocabulary as opposed to Persian.