Magtymguly Pyragy, born Magtymguly, was a Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller who is considered to be the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history.
A Soviet Union stamp with an artistic depiction of Magtymguly Pyragy, 1983
Atrek River, Golestan, the region where Magtymguly was born and lived most of his life
One of the three madrasas (religious school of higher learning) where Magtymguly studied – Kukeldash Madrasa, Bukhara (present-day Uzbekistan)
Magtymguly Pyragy on Soviet Ruble, 1991
Ahmad Yasawi 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 a Hanafi scholar like his murshid, Yusuf Hamadani.
The Mausoleum of Ahmed Yasawi