A NEW WORK ABOUT “THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS”

“Mantiq-ut-Tayr” by Farid al-Din Attar, “Lisan-ut-Tayr” by Alisher Navoi are the most famous works written based on the traditional topic, where birds' travel in search of the Simurg is described. This subject on return of human's soul to the Most High, and this soul is described as birds in allegoric form. Rizai Paiwandi, Khorezmian poet of XVIII century, had also written a poem on this traditional allegoric topic, which is widespread in the Oriental lit- erature. Currently, the only survived list of manuscript, which was copied by Sultanali al- Khivaki in 1232 by Hidjra (1817) in Khankah village, is kept with the State Museum of Liter- ature named after Alisher Navoi of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan under inventory number 127. Data on the poet's biography and creative work are very scare, and his poem “The Language of Birds” has been unknown in the history of Uzbek literatury till present