Chagatay Turkic MANUSCRIPT PROPHET MOHAMMAD BOOK antique CENTRAL ASIA 1853

Description

LIFE  OF PROPHET MOHHAMAD
87 leaves (174 pages)
Size 3 by 5"
Original binding (worn, with destroyed spine, partially detached))
Good interior
19th century
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Chagatai, also known as Turki or Chagatay Turkic is an extinct Turkic literary language that was once widely spoken in Central Asia and remained the shared literary language there until the early 20th century.
It was used across a wide geographic area including parts of modern-day Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Literary Chagatai is the predecessor of the modern Karluk branch of Turkic languages, which include Uzbek and Uyghur.
Turkmen, which is not within the Karluk branch but in the Oghuz branch of Turkic languages, was heavily influenced by Chagatai for centuries.
Ali-Shir Nava'i was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature.
Chagatai literature is still studied in modern Uzbekistan, where the language is seen as the predecessor and the direct ancestor of modern Uzbek and the literature is regarded as part of the national heritage of Uzbekistan.
In Turkey it is studied and regarded as part of the common, wider Turkic heritage.
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