LITERATURE BRINGS PEOPLE CLOSER (CONCERNING UZBEK-ARABIC LITERARY RELATIONS)

Abstract

Since ancient times, our region has been connected with the Arab world through the Great Silk Road by economic and cultural relations. These ties were further strengthened and further developed within the framework of a single Muslim civilization at its various stages and manifestations. The article discusses some periods of cultural and literary relations in the past, such as during the reign of the Turkic Mamluks in Egypt. Also, in the article, the author examines literary relations in the new period at the beginning of the twentieth century, and especially in the 60s, when these connections rose to a new level after the Arab countries entered the path of independent development. The theme of Uzbekistan has firmly established itself in the works of Arab authors in various genres - essays, poems, and even novels. At present, when Uzbekistan establishes relations of multilateral cooperation with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and other Arab countries, new horizons of Uzbek-Arab cultural and literary relationships are opening and their possibilities are expanding.