Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Science, prof. E.E.Bertels substantiated with many theoretical and factual materials the originality of Alisher Navai's poetry in his monograph "Navai and Attar", since when this monograph was written, Alisher Navai was considered not a poet, but a translator-imitator of the Persian-classical literature in Western European literature. "Navai and Attar" consists of three parts. The first part substantiates the relativity of the

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... ction between the Turkic literature and the Persian and the fallacy of the widespread opinion regarding the inferiority of the Turkic literature. The second part defines the purpose and tasks of writing the poem "The Language of Birds" by Alisher Navai and describes his attitude to his predecessor, the Persian poet Fariduddin Attar. The third part belongs to line by line comparison of the poems by F. Attar "Mantik ut - tayr" and A. Navai "Lison ut - tayr". Conclusion proves that Alisher Navai was an original and unsurpassed poet of oriental literature.