The study of Alisher Navoy’s works textual criticism of the 20th century: the experience of Hamid Sulaymonov and Porso Shamsiev

Uzbek textual criticism has accumulated extensive experience in creating scientific and critical texts of Alisher Navoi’s works. Initial textual studies were carried out by such scientists as S. Mutalibov, G. Karimov, I. Sultan, Kh. Sulaimanov, P. Shamsiev, S. Ganieva. This article comparatively studies the scientific methods, principles and approaches of Kh. Suleymanov and P. Shamsiev when compiling the text and draws conclusions. Also at the end of the article, the problem of context when composing a scientific- critical text is mentioned.