Zubaida Shadkam

Works written in Eastern Turkic in Central Asia are of great importance in the field of Islamic Turkic Literature. Some of these works were written in the type of doctrine and some of them were written in the type of legend. Hagiographies have been the subject of many researchers, especially in the fields of language, literature, theology and history, both in terms of language and content. The ṣūfī-poet Hodja Aḥmad al-Yasawī (d. 562/1166), who was the founder of the Yasawī tariqa (order), had an important place in the spread of Islam among the Central Asian Turks, who deeply affected the religious-mystical life of the society. He spread Islam in the Turkestan region with his educative and instructive poems in the style of wisdom, which he said in a way that the people and his followers could understand. By followers, the Yasawī order spread to Khorasan, Azerbaijan and Anatolia from the southwest of Turkestan through the Kipchak dervishes, first starting from the Transoxiana area. In...

The family and kinship culture, which includes traditional associations, is based on a strong foundationin Turkic society. Nowadays, many research works in the field of language and culture, especiallyrelated to customs and traditions, are based on the disclosure of national understanding and nationalstyle of life in Turkic world. Nevertheless, as a linguicultural fact, there is not enough research in Turkishproverbs in the literature of our country. This article analyses the characteristic features of the tradition«dunurluk» of Turkish people in the context of all-Turkish traditions based on sustainable terms related tothe tradition of swattering. The purpose of this article is to reveal the meaning of the tradition «dunurluk»in the Turkish sense and, with the help of a content-thematic grouping, to identify the specificity of Turkishsustainable terms, which reflect the tradition of swattering.The article gives examples of sustainable terms, their translation and meaning, which mak...

Her toplumun yasam tarihi boyunca dilinde olusan ve kaliplasan bir takim dil birimleri, kalip  sozleri ve atasozleri gibi kultur urunleri vardir. Onlar ayni zamanda, o toplumun yasam tarzini, dusunce  sistemini, yasadigi olaylari ve hayallerini yansitan bir mecmuadir. Boyle bir mecmuayi incelemek  ve arastirmak\herhangi bir toplumun kulturel gecmisini anlatabilecek ve gun isigina cikarabilecektir.  Bilindigi gibi her ulusun kendine ozgu milli ozellikleri ve farkliliklarini ozunde barindiran ve yansitan  birtakim kultur urunu, orf ve adet dizini vardir ki bunlar, ayni zamanda hem maddi hem manevi  urunlerin tasiyicisidir. Bunlar arasinda asirlara uzanan derin tarihiyle, sistematik yapisiyla, uluslararasi  ve kulturlerarasi iletisimde sahip olduklari farkli tanimlariyla ve cok onemli konumlariyla  akrabalik isimlerini gosterebiliriz. Akrabalik isimleri, ulusun manevi dunyasini tasvir eden, derin anlami  olan etno-kulturel icerige sahip olgulardir ve farkli bir yapiya sahiplerdir. Mill...

Ancient Iranian civilization has a significant place in the Old Turkic culture. The Turkic language has many Persian word collocations. Even after the adoption of Islam, Arabic words were also translated into Persian and used in everyday life. For instance, the words «Fasting, the Prophet, Prayer, Angels, Souls ...» are associated with the convictions of the Turkic language. An important role in the formation of Turkic poetry, literature and Sufism [tasawwuf] played an ancient Iranian art, mythology and poetry. Of course, it is worth mentioning that, the Turks used Persian language widely in everyday life, except in political and military spheres. The Persian language, known as the “Dari” in the middle ages in the modern Central Asia and Maveranaghra [interfluve], was the language of writing and speaking. Therefore, that is why, we can affirm speak about the meaning of the Persian language in the Turkic culture. In addition, traces of the Persian culture are still visible in Central Asia. In this article, we made a comparison between the content of the ancient Iranian work [Pahlavides] Minouye Kherad, which belongs to the first millennium and the Kutadgu-Bilig, the literary heritage of the medieval Turkic-Islamic writing. Key words: Ancient Iran, Turkic culture, Kutadgu Bilig, Minouye Kherad.