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LITERATURE BY NOGAY
TURKS IN PAST AND PRESENT
Abstract: Some Nogay researchers claim the history of their
literature start from Orkhon-Yenisey monuments. Although it is
mentioned that oral and written literary works dating back to
Middle Ages were created on the Nogay territory, yet the literary
works created in the twentieth century still get more attention.
The Nogays who name the person as jirav, bahshi who tell
sagas, as ertegishi who tell myths and fables and as sheshen who
tell proverbs and tongue-twisters declare themselves the owner of
the literary works created by Kipchaks. “Ahmet Adil Ulu”,
“Edigey”, “Koplanli batir”, “Mamay”, “Shora Batir”, “Edil Soltan”,
“Kirk Nogay batiri” are outstanding sagas of Nogay literature.
In 1830 Alexander Khodzko, polish by nationality, collected
the saga “Edigey” from Ali Sharapov who was a Nogay from
Hashtarkhan and published it in 1842 in London.
The researchers believe the Nogay folklore started being
collected in the nineteenth century. Poet Sibra who wrote in the
style of folk poem is considered to be one of the founders of
modern written Nogay literature. After Sibra such poets as Parizdak
Shaban ulu, Shal Kiyiz Tilenish ulu, Asan Kaygulu, Domambet
Azayli, Jirenshe Sheshen, Kazi Tuan Suyunishin, Shaban
and others lived in the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries. Despite forced
migrations, wars, imprisonments and exiles poets such as
Fakhreddin Abushahman ulu (1808-83), Sadikbay Alkaydar
(1811-76), Abulhalik Abdulrashid ulu (1858-1913), Aslan Shaban
ulu (1858-1912), Baymirza Manap ulu (1888-1918), Aji Molla
Noghman ulu (1884-1930), Taram Gumug ulu, Menkilisheyh Ismayil
ulu, Abdulkadir Bekbay ulu and others continued with the
traditional poetry and created rich base for the creation of new
Nogay literature through writing in the such genres as yirlau
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