![]() ![]() Among the population, respected aksakals are wise and know how to solve problems among ashiks they are generally called dede. "In the dastans, Dede Korkut appears as the aksakal, the advisor or sage, solving the difficulties faced by tribal members. "Grandfather Korkut", is a widely renowned soothsayer and bard, and serves to link the stories together, and the thirteenth chapter of the book compiles sayings attributed to him. The twelve stories that comprise the bulk of the work were written down after the Turks converted to Islam, and the heroes are often portrayed as good Muslims while the villains are referred to as infidels, but there are also many references to the Turks' pre-Islamic magic. In the 14th century, a federation of Oghuz, or, as they were by this time termed, Turcoman tribesmen, who called themselves Ak-koyunlu established a dynasty that ruled eastern Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iraq and western Iran. ![]() The Turcomans were those Turks, mostly but not exclusively Oghuz, who had embraced Islam and begun to lead a more sedentary life than their forefathers. It commemorates struggles for freedom at a time when the Oghuz Turks were a herding people, although "it is clear that the stories were put into their present form at a time when the Turks of Oghuz descent no longer thought of themselves as Oghuz." From the mid-10th century on, the term Oghuz was gradually supplanted among the Turks themselves by Turcoman (Turkmen) this process was completed by the beginning of the 13th century. įor the Turkic peoples, especially people who identify themselves as Oghuz, it is the principal repository of ethnic identity, history, customs and the value systems of the Turkic peoples throughout history. According to Barthold, "it is not possible to surmise that this dastan could have been written anywhere but in the Caucasus". Origin and synopsis of the epic ĭede Korkut is a heroic dastan (legend), also known as Oghuz-nameh among the Oghuz Turkic people, which starts out in Central Asia, continues in Anatolia and centers most of its action in the Caucasus. The epic tales of Dede Korkut are some of the best-known Turkic dastans from among a total of well over 1,000 recorded epics among the Mongolian and Turkic language families. Only two manuscripts of the text, one in the Vatican and one in Dresden, were known until 2018, when the Gonbad manuscript was discovered. The book's mythic narrative is part of the cultural heritage of the peoples of Oghuz Turkic origin, mainly of Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan. The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turkic peoples and their pre-Islamic beliefs. The Book of Dede Korkut or Book of Korkut Ata ( Azerbaijani: Kitabi-Dədə Qorqud, کتاب دده قورقود Turkmen: Kitaby Dädem Gorkut Turkish: Dede Korkut Kitabı) is the most famous among the epic stories of the Oghuz Turks.
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