TATARLARDA MİLLÎ KİMLİK VE FOLKLOR
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND FOLKLORE IN TATARS

Summary/Abstract: It is observed that the first compilation and research activities on folklore, which is the essence of national culture in the age when the national identities of contemporary societies became clearer. The 19th century, rooted in the modern era of modern education and training in the Turkic World and especially Tatars, and the possibility of publishing periodical press and books, is also the beginning of the first collections of folklore and their studies. In this form of modernism, Muslim reformism is the first thing that has multiplied, a search for a modernist Islam. Among the Tatar intellectuals, names such as Galiman Barudi, Musa Carullah Bigiyev, Abdurreşid Ibrahim, Zakir Kâdirî were in search of a powerful and modernized religion. Right next to them are İsmail Gaspıralı, Rizaeddin Fahreddin, Fatih Kerimi and Hida Maksudi, educational reformism is evident. Finally, as a result of these social and cultural developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the contemporary Tatar national identity is seen to have come to fruition.Tatar society naturally found solid sources of national romanticism parallel to this modernization, and therefore folk culture and folk language came forward in this process. The intellectuals who are the forerunners of the society proceeded to compile, to summarize and examine folk literature, much later in the 19th century, the era of Marifetçilik revelation Tatars: here we find the language and folklore knowledge like Abdul Qayyum al-Nashiri (1825-1902), the founder of Tatar folklore studies holds a special place. Abdullah Tukay, the star of contemporary Tatar literature, is a poet who personally studied Tatar folklore and collected folk songs.

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