Hz. Ali Cenknâmes in The Kazakh Oral Tradition
KAZAK SÖZLÜ GELENEĞİNDE HZ. ALİ CENKNÂMELERİ
Shadkam Z. Kai̇Ranbayeva N.
2022Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University
Turk Kulturu ve Haci Bektas Veli - Arastirma Dergisi
2022Issue 101169 - 186 pp.
In terms of history, oral cultural products are older, as speech occurred long before writing. Oral cultural products from the past such as epics, poems, plays, folk tales and myths are found in all societies. Since the products of oral culture and literature are always present in the memory of individuals, their formation, use, and application are easier and more affordable in societies that live in the form of nomadic monarchy. For this reason, the oral culture and literature of the Central Asian Turkic people are more diverse and richer than the written cultural products. In this rich oral culture tradition, they have transferred their feelings of love and affection towards motherland, mother, child and lover from generation to generation in the form of various epics, tears and stories. Nomadic Kazakhs, living in harmony with nature, did not lose their cultural and spiritual values neither in natural disasters nor in social-political and economic crises, and they knew the ways to protect them. They have survived to the present day, which have been transmitted for centuries from generation to generation in the form of epics, stories, tales and tears, proverbs, and laments. They have expressed their heroism and prowess in their struggle with survival and difficulties in the steppes of Central Asia in epics and jırs such as Alpamys Batyr, Kobylandy Batyr, and Karasay Batyr. After accepting Islam, religious epics began to be seen among the heroic epics called Kazakh batyr jırs in order to teach the basics and conditions of the religion of Islam, as well as to teach and spread the Sunnah of the Prophet, love and respect towards Him and His companions. Among the religious epics about Allah, love for the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), Hazrat Alis battles that instil values such as justice, loyalty, honesty, courage, good morality, the heroism, and sacrifices narrated in cenknāmes were known and told with great love by all Muslims. In the study, the printed copies of Hazrat Alis cenknāmes (Boztorgay, Dariga Kız, Hazrat Ali Cengi, Kıssa-i Saranbay) and manuscript copies (Salsal and Kıssa-i Risale-i Cenkname-i Şah-i Merdan) by giving examples from texts such as the content, language and genre features, it will be tried to draw attention to the examination and research of these texts.
batırlık jırs , Cenknāmes of Hazrat Ali , Kazakh oral culture , Oral tradition
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