Brief History of Science and Contributions of Ali ？ir Nevay？

Knowing and learning are the basic requirements and necessities of human mind. The solution to fulfill this requirement and necessity is fulfilling the curiosities of mind. People who make the knowing their center of lives contributed and served for humanity by following and producing knowledge through history of humanity. Those of keep doing this service are settled in places where their value is known. Therefore they always seek new and advanced knowledge. By doing this service, those people carried the most of the burden of the great cavitation’s creation. After the Sumerian, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greek civilizations, a new civilization was born in the Islamic countries. Khorasan and Transoxiana became the centers of it. Modern European civilization's foundation, the Islam civilization, raised the most of the well-known scientists for five centuries. Ali ？ir Nevay？, who lived in the 15th century which is the declining era of this civilization, has established new scientific institutions with most of his own contribution and the support of the government. Due to his extraordinary efforts, a scientific environment was created then raised new scientists and artists in Herat. Ali ？ir Nevay？ was born in 1441, in Herat. It's known that both of his mother and father and their elders are high-ranking officials alongside Timurid princes. He is the one of the intellectuals who has he greatest numbers of works in various subjects when it considered to Turkish culture and literary history as a whole. But first of all his poetry is acknowledged by everyone. Turkish language has been neglected sometimes even by some Turkish intellectuals. But a few Turkish scientists and artists such as Ka？garl？ Mahmud, Yusuf Has Hacip and Hoca Ahmet Yesevi strongly opposed this situation and wrote books to destroy this neglection. Also Nevay？ has served for Turkish and kept it superior. Ali ？ir Nevay？ is a person who has spent his whole life with the thought of how to serve the society which he lived in. The charity institutions that he created should be considered as the product of service to society and the country. Educational institutions within these charities have special importance. Nevay？ mentions many names in his works, especially in Mecalisü'n-nefayis, excluding those educational institutions such as madrasahs, who he raised and whose education has been influenced directly by him. He evaluate and direct young people who like science, literature and art in Mecalisü'n-nefayis. Knowledge is a vital phenomenon for human beings. People; to live a better and more