AN OLD TURKMEN TRANSLATION OF MESNEVI (POEM MADE UP OF RHYMED COUPLETS, EACH COUPLET BEING OF A DIFFERENT RHYME) WHICH WAS DONE IN BUKHARA, TRANSLATOR AND RESEARCHER

Both original (written in Persian) text and an old Turkmen translation of Mevlana Mohammed Celaleddin Rumi`s (1207-1273) mesnevi are housed at the National Manuscripts of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. Famous Turkmen sheikh and poet Niyazkulu Niyazi, who bore different names, (date of death 1236 hijra, 1280-1281 A.D.) translated mesnevi that was made up of 208 lines from Persian into Turkmen in Bukhara. An incisive literary critic and writer Abdulhekim Kulmuhammedov was the first scholar who studied carefully the Turkmen translation of mesnevi in the late of 1920`s, Lebap province. We present readers the transfer of an old Turkmen translation of mesnevi from Arabian alphabet to Latin alphabet as an additional text.