ЕЖЕЛГІ Д Ә У І Р Ә Д Е Б И Е Т ІН ІҢ А Н Т О Л О Г И Я С Ы
ABSTRACT
A ncient w ritten literary m onum ents represent a valuable asset o f our national
history and culture. T he publication o f these historical values is the crucial national
issue o f any civilized State.
T he first P resident o f the R epublic o f K azakhstan-E lbasy N .A . N azarb ay ev in his
article «T he Seven Facets o f the G reat S teppe» noted: «T he G reat Steppe also gave
rise to a galaxy o f prom inent figures. A m ong them are such large-scale figures as al-
Farabi and Y assaui, K ul-T egin and B eibars, Tauke and A bylay, K enesary and A bay
and m any others. T herefore, w e should ... it is necessary to system atize and enhance
the activities aim ed to create and d issem inate the p op ular science series «O utstanding
P ersonalities o f the G reat S teppe» - «U ly D ala tulgalary», covering a w ide historical
horizon ».
In this regard, w ritten m onum ents o f ancient and m edieval Turkic literature, show ing
the im portance o f K azakh literature and culture, have not yet been published in the
form o f an anthology. A lthough prom in ent O riental scholars and Turkologists o f the
S oviet era studied and published ancient Turkic literary m onum ents to a certain extent,
the publication o f Turkic literary m onum ents o f religious co ntent w as prohibited and
for the sam e reason, m any publications o f ancient literature w ere subject to censorship,
as a result, m any texts w ere published w ith distortions. In order to com pensate this
gap, the M .O. A uezov Institute o f L iterature and A rt has begun publishing the five-
volum e «A nthology o f A ncient L iterature», «T reasures o f the G reat Steppe» series as
part o f the State task «D evelopm ent and Study o f W ritten L iterary M onum ents o f the
A ncient, M edieval Periods and P reparation» o f the M inistry o f E ducation and Science
o f the R epublic o f K azakhstan.
The publication o f this anthology, w hich is carried out in our country for the first
tim e system atically, contributes to the solution o f the tasks set in the article o f the
President o f the R epublic o f K azakhstan N .A . N azarbayev «Seven Facets o f the Great
Steppe», as w ell as a m ore com plete fam iliarization o f the people w ith the treasures
o f spiritual culture, take care o f the aesthetic education o f the readers on the best
exam ples o f national art culture.
In the course o f preparing the volum es o f this series, extensive search and textual
studies w ork w as carried out to ensure reliable reading o f the sources. In the process
o f preparing the volum es, such circum stances w ere taken into account w hich result
the aim o f this series: 1) publish literary m onum ents published in separate books., 2)
publish all texts stored in m anuscripts. 3) publish the texts o f literary m onum ents o f
the M iddle A ges in the original form , in w hich they reached us.
The m ain feature o f the series «Treasures o f the G reat Steppe» is that m ost o f the
literary m onum ents w ritten in the Turkic language w ill be first published in translation
into the K azakh language. The anthology w ill include the selected w orks o f ancient