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Yaqînî from Herat was one of the famous poet back in XV. Century. We learned about his life from Ali Şîr Navâyî’s Macâlisu’n—nafâis. Yaqînî’s Contest, the only manuscript of which is in London, British Museum Add. 7914, fol. 314a—321a. The beginning of the text was lost. Arrow represents honesty, and Bow represents crookedness. Turkish and Persian verses take part in this work and it has a selective place with Ahmadî’s The Contest of the String Instruments and Yüsuf Amîrî’s The Bhang and the Wine and also have an importend place in our language and our cultural heritage. Yaqînî’s unique work The Contest of the Arrov and the Bow prepared by me in six Chapters: Introduction, Studies on the text, Bibliography, Text and Translation, Explanation and Facsimile of the text