Özet:

Sadreddin Aynî, who is considered to be the founder of modern Tajik literature, was born in Bukhara. He has produced works in the fields of history, literature, linguistics, poetry and social criticism. With the works he produced, he made a great contribution to the change of the literary, social and cultural environment in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Sadreddin Aynî, who was born in a family engaged in farming in Bukhara, studied at the madrasas such as Alim Cân, Bedel Bey, Hacı Zâhid, Kökeldaş and Hüseyin Bay, apart from the Mir Arab madrasah where he was initially educated in Bukhara. He met new ideas in the intellectual and literary environments in Bukhara. Aynî, who was among the people who started the Maarif movement together with the Ceditist intellectuals, saw the deficiency when the first school opened with the jadid method in Bukhara was opened, and wrote textbooks for these schools. One of the important factors affecting Sadreddin Aynî's world of thought was the newspapers published all over the world. In particular, the newspaper Tercüman, which was published in Crimea, helped İsmail Gaspıralı meet modern ideas. His copyrighted works include history, literature, biography, autobiography, memoirs and poems. Aynî struggled hard to prove that Tajik language and literature is an independent literature, and he wrote various books in this direction. In this article, the life works and thoughts of Sadreddin Aynî, about whom no study has been done in Turkey until today, are discussed. In the first chapter, the life of the author is discussed. In the second part, information is given about his basic thoughts, political and cultural activities and effects. In the third part, his works are introduced by classifying them according to their subjects.