Y.E. Bertels: Researcher of Alisher Navoi's Life and Works

This article examines the significant contribution of the Orientalist scholar Yevgeny Eduardovich Bertels to the analysis and study of the life and works of Alisher Navoi, the great thinker of our classical literature and bilingual poet, in the context of textual studies, source studies, and comparative aspects within a holistic historical and literary process. At the same time, it is objectively shown that adherence to the principle of class consciousness significantly influenced the scholar’s principles for selecting and theoretically analyzing literary works, as well as evaluating literary figures.