The article analyzes the views of the great Uzbek poet and thinker Alisher Navoi on the literature of the era of Mirzo Ulugbek. The study of the characteristics of the literature of this period, the literary heritage of the leading representatives, the development of poetic genres and images reveals the value of the work of the great poet «Majolis un-nafois» as the main source. Based on the assessment of their work by Alisher Navoi, the existence of the literary environment in Samarkand during the reign of Mirzo Ulugbek with its creative traditions, the significant contribution of the works of representatives of this creative environment to the development of national artistic and aesthetic thinking was investigated