Historical Places on the Territory of Turkestan Associated with Ahmed Yasawi

Abstract

The article deals with the mausoleums and burial places associated with the name of Akhmet Yasawi, located in the protected area of the mausoleum of Khoja Akhmet Yasawi in the city of Turkestan, the characteristics of the mausoleums of that period, as well as issues related to the construction of mausoleums in Central Asia. When considering these issues, the object of the study, attention was drawn to the results of researches in the 19th–20th centuries and the latest archaeological research. The mausoleums and burial places associated with Akhmet Yasawi, located near the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, have a spiritual continuity with the mausoleums and burial places of the Kazakhs of the early period, and the nature of their construction. The studies and scientific conclusions concerning the settlements of the descendants of Azret Sultan and the settlements of the 12th century on the territory of Yassy were compared and analyzed. A comparative analysis was carried out of information from folk legends, scientific data of the 18th-19th–20th centuries, scientific articles about the students, descendants of Yasawi in the work of Ahmed Yasawi «Divani Hikmet», material values ​​in the environment of their residences and burials, and their relationship with ancient spiritual and cultural values of the Kazakh people. Photo materials of the period of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century of the graves, mosques of Ahmed Yasawi's students: Bab Arab, Undemes Ata, Baba Mashin, as well as the bridge of 1910–1915, located near Azret Sultan, are given. At the same time, data are provided on the study of the territory in which the descendants of Khoja Akhmet Yasawi lived, as well as the land of Suri, where his son Ibrahim was killed. Article tells about the role in serving the people and the burial place of Imam Marguzi, who in the XII century came to Yasy to compete in knowledge, but lost in the competition and became a student of Hazrat Sultan.