Ahmad Yassaviy: life and hikmats
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write Yassaviy’s life chronologically with 5 dates or events.
Birth in Sayram; father’s death; upbringing under Arslonbobo; study with Hamadoni in Bukhara; death 1166; mausoleum 1395–1397.
2
Find the marks of a “true lover” in the hikmat and write them in your own words in 5 points.
Giving up base desires, contentment, serving the good, labour, loyalty.
3
Write 3 features showing the closeness of hikmats to folk oral literature.
Syllabic metre, four-line/murabba‘ form, word repetition; images like road, caravan.
4
Write 5–6 sentences on “My impressions of Ahmad Yassaviy’s teachings”.
Free answer.