Chagatai literature

Chagatai literature, the body of written works produced in Chagatai, a classical Turkic literary language of Central Asia. Chagatai literature took shape after the conversion of the Mongol Golden Horde to Islam, a process completed under the 14th-century khan Öz Beg. The first literary efforts in Chagatai were translations of works from other languages, with literary activity centred in Khwārezm in Central Asia; in Sarai, the capital of the Golden Horde, located on the Volga...