19. YÜZYILDA TÜRKİSTAN’DA RAMAZAN KÜLTÜRÜ VE ÇAĞATAYCA ANONİM ŞİİRLERE YANSIMASI
RAMADAN CULTURE IN TURKESTAN IN THE 19th CENTURY AND ITS REFLECTION ON ANONYMOUS POEMS IN CHAGATAY

Summary/Abstract: Ramadan has been a more important month for Muslim Turks than other months, regardless of geography and historical period. At the same time, it also raises curiosity about how the month of Ramadan was spent in the Turkic states during this historical period. While information about Ramadan culture in Ottoman society was obtained in the light of studies conducted in Turkey, curiosity about how the month of Ramadan was experienced in Turkestan led to the emergence of this paper. However, given the paucity of pre-19th century sources on the topic and the fact that most works providing information on Ramadan culture in Turkestan date from the Russian Empire, research has been limited to the 19th century. In this paper, the culture of Ramadan in Turkestan is discussed in general terms, according to information in the records of British and Russian explorers such as Meakin, Geyer, Khanikov, Nalivkin, Nalivkina, Ostroumov, Pantusov, and Shishov, who came to Turkestan in the 19th century. In addition, the paper includes anonymous poems of Ramadan in Chagatay, which attracted the attention of orientalists Ostroumov and Pantusov and served as the reason for their compilation, and also examines the culture embodied in these poems.

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