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Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi ( The People of the Secret by Ernest Scott (1983) ISBN 0863040381 as a member of the Khwajagan Sufis. His poems created a new genre of religious folk poetry in Central Asian Turkic literature and influenced many religious poets in the following countries. John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 271 Very little is known about his life, but legends indicate that his father Ibrahim died when the boy was young and his family moved to Yasa. There he became a disciple of Arslan Baba . After the death of the latter Ahmed Yesevi moved to Bukhara and followed his studies with the well known Yusuf Hamdani Y. N. Öztürk: ''The Eye of the Heart'' (Redhouse Press Istanbul 1988), p.49 (d. 1140). Later he made the city of Yasi into the major centre of learning for the Kazakh steppes, then retired to a life of contemplation aged 63. He dug himself an underground cell where he spent the rest of his life. "It was a Seljuq king who brought Rumi , the great Sufi poet, to Konya ; and it was in Seljuq times that Ahmad Yesevi (died 562; A.D. 1166), another great Sufi, lived and taught. The influence of those two remarkable teachers has continued to the present", notes a Turkish scholar Hasan Basri Çantay. Hasan Basri Çantay, "Chapter 7: Islamic Culture in Turkish Areas", in Islam -- The Straight Path: Islam Interpreted by Muslims by Prof. Kenneth W. Morgan, Published by The Ronald Press Company, New York 1958. A istic elements compared to other Sufi Orders. "The Sacred Sites of Kyrgyzstan", Cholpon K. Dyikanova, Taalaibek K. Dyikanov, Jarkyn B. Samanchina (eds.), Bishkek, 2004-2005, p. 8, citing Demidov, 1988, p. 3 The first Turkish-Kazakh university, Ahmet Yesevi University, Ahmet Yesevi University Official Site and liceum, Hoca Ahmed Yesevi Lisesi, Hoca Ahmed Yesevi Lisesi Official Site were named in his honor. Naqshbandi Sufi Idries Shah mentions Ahmed Yasavi's lineage in his interesting book-cum-psychological-experiment "The Book of the Book" Shah, I: ''The Book of the Book'' (Octagon Press ), p.9 ISBN 978-0900860126 . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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