Yusuf Has Hacip

Yusuf Khass Hajib (Arabic : ; Yusuf Kha ajib Balasaguni ; Uyghur : ; Kyrgyz) was an 11th-century Turkic poet from the city of Balasaghun, the capital of the Karakhanid Empire in modern day Kyrgyzstan. He wrote the Kutadgu Bilig and most of what is known about him comes from his own writings in this work.