“ƏSLİ və KƏRƏM” DASTANININ TƏDQİQİNDƏ SALMAN MÜMTAZIN ROLU
THE ROLE OF SALMAN MUMTAZ IN THE STUDY OF “KEREM and ASLI” EPIC

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the study of the epic "Asli and Karam" which is one of the folk novels of the famous Azerbaijani folklorist Salman Mumtaz. It is emphasized in the article that Salman Mumtaz, who had an important role in the development of Azerbaijani folklore studies, along with many examples of folklore, researched on the "Asli and Karam" epic, collected and published poems related to the work, and published his conclusions related to the topic in the press. It is obvious that "Asli va Karam" epic is one of the works that formed an important stage in the development of Azerbaijani novelism and created a tradition. This folk novel, which stands in a unique position in our folklore and is welcomed by readers and listeners, is written on the theme of love. The main theme of the work includes topics such as achieving spiritual beauty and nurturing it, appreciating and developing human qualities such as loyalty, trust and loyalty in love, prosperous goal, forming the position of the homeland and citizenship, endlessly fighting for the success of friendship, pure love and worldly values. It is clear that Ziyad Khan's son Mahmud falls in love with Maryam, the priest's daughter, although Ziyadkhan is happy about it, the priest is not delighted for it because the young belong to different religions, and he is against coming together of the lovers, and causes their tragedies and seperation. S. Mumtaz writes down this popular novel in the 30s of the last century and published it in the "Edebiyyat newspaper". The fact that Salman Mumtaz deal with the importance of "Asli va Karam" as much as "Koroglu" epic means that it was formed approximately in the 16th and 17th centuries. Even the idea that Karam, one of the heroes of the epic, is aimed. After that, many researchers, M.H. Tahmasib, I. Abbasli, Gara Namazov and recent folklorists expressed their opinions about the identity and ethnicity of not only Karam, but also Asli in the article. The epic "Asli and Karam" is one of the rich examples of our nation's centuries-old cultural history. The work once again shows that the Azerbaijan own humanistic and multicultural values and live with constantly humanistic views and progressive ideas.

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