Kazak Türklerinin Kültüründe Alaşa Han Evliyalığı Üzerine Bir İnceleme

Abstract

 In the culture of Kazakh Turks, Alasha Khan is known as a legendary saint who tried to integrate the nomadic tribes living in the steppes of Kazakhstan and also founded a khanate. In the folklore sources of the old period, it is told that Alaşa Han broke away from the society with the birth of us leprosy child and established a state with 300 hundred soldiers. In the folklore documents collected by Russian researchers who came to occupy the region during the Tsarist period, the name Alasha Khan is associated with the establishment of the Kazakh Khanate. In the folklore sources evaluated by Kazakh researcher Chokan Velikhanov, the examination of Alasha Khan Tomb is known as a legendary saint, Alasha Khan is described as the hero who brought Kazakh Turks together. As a result of other evaluations, it shows that the name Alasha Khan is connected with the emergence of the Kazakh people and the merger of the Three Juz (three necks). We made a table of 34 folklore sources about Alasha Khan and these sources were classified by comparative method. Several versions of the legendary narratives about Alasha Khan, which are preserved among the people and found in scientific studies, were examined. Alaşa Khan is also known in folklore sources as a saintly person who tried to unite Kazakh, Bashkir, Nogai, Karakalpak, Kyrgyz and Tatar tribes under his "Six Alaş". In this study, it was aimed to compare the folklore sources about Alasha Han, which circulated in the Kazakh dialect literature, and the results of archaeological excavations. Thus, folklore sources and archaeological data were compared and presented with an interdisciplinary method. 14-20. Historical interpretations were made on the basis of the copies of the legends and the ideas compiled by the researchers from the people's mouth about the Alasha Khan character between the 19th century. Based on the legends and historical researches, efforts were made to explain the cultural layers of Alasha Khan sainthood and its meaning and importance as a cult. The emergence of the Kazakh people in the legends and the state formation process were reviewed. New views on the relationship between Alasha Han sainthood and the mausoleum, the architectural features of the mausoleum, the date of its construction and its meaning were presented.&nbsp