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Chagatai literature

Which early Chagatai works were translations from Persian literature?

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Bābur inspecting a garden, portrait miniature from the Bābur-nāmeh, 16th century; in the British Library. — Uzbek literature Bābur inspecting a garden, portrait miniature from the Bābur-nāmeh, 16th century; in the British Library.

Two major monuments of early Chagatai literature were translations of works by Persian poets:

In 1340, Qutb Khorazmi translated Nezami’s romantic epic Khosrow o-Shirin ("Khosrow and Shirin").
In 1390–91, Sayf-i Sarayi translated Sa'di’s Gulistan ("The Rose Garden"), a prose work interspersed with verse.