SHOH NAVFAL OBRAZINING SHAKLLANISHIDA TARIXIY SHAXSLAR VA SHARQ ADABIY AN’ANALARINING TA’SIRI

In classical Eastern literature, particularly in the works of Alisher Navoi, the artistic interpretation of historical figures has become a significant poetic tradition. One such figure is Shah Navfal, depicted in the epic Farhad and Shirin as a symbolic character endowed with aesthetic and philosophical meaning. This article explores Shah Navfal not merely as a historical-biographical figure but as a literary embodiment of ethical, political, and philosophical ideas. Within the structure of the epic, the character plays a key dramatic role as a foil or antagonist who contributes to the protagonist’s moral development and narrative testing.