Ahmad Yasawi
Khawaja Ahmad Yasawi or Ahmed Yesevi Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи(1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of Sufi orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world.Yasawi is the earliest known Turkic poet who composed poetry in Middle Turkic.He was a pioneer of popular mysticism, founded the first Turkic Sufi order, the Yasawiyya or Yeseviye, which very quickly spread over Turkic-speaking areas.He was an Hanafi scholar like his murshid, Yusuf Hamdani. Early life Ahmad Yasawi was born to ibrahim in sayram at the end of the 11th century. He lost his father at the age of seven and was then raised by arslan baba .By then, yasawi had already advanced through a series of high spiritual stages and, under the direction of arslan baba, the young ahmad reached a high level of maturity and slowly began to win fame from every quarter. His father ibrahim had already been renowned in that region for performing countless feats and many legends were told of him. Consequently, it was recognized that, with respect to his lineage as well, this quiet and unassuming young boy, who always listened to his elder sister, held a spiritually important position. Yasawi later moved to bukhara and followed his studies with the yusuf hamdani.Upon the demise of yusuf hamdani, first ʿabdullah barki and then hassan-i andākī became the head of hamdani's khanqah.Yasawi became the head murshid of the naqshbandi order when hassan-i andākī died in 1160. He then turned this position to abdul khaliq gajadwani under hamdani's advice and moved to turkistan city in order to spread islam in turkestan.
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