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MANAS DESTANINDA HALK HUKUKU
FOLK LAW IN THE FOOT OF MANAS

Author(s): Burcu Sesli
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Law, Oral history, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Law
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Turkish people's law; Manas epic; state administration; social order; prohibitions and punishments;

Summary/Abstract: Every society has rules which are formed by the desire to live together, which are formed by social, cultural, economic, geographical conditions and conditions, and which are developed and changed over time with the effect of belief, which are accepted by every sector living in society, and which contain prohibitions and punishments. These rules, which make the desire of the people to live together safe and systematic, are called “people's law”. These rules, which were initially determined verbally, have been written on the side of the states formed by the society over time. In Turkish society, in time, the rules of faith, culture, traditions, behavior, habits and absolute observance of the “ceremony” is called. The ceremony constituted an important part of the rules of law in the Turkish society, which was initially an oral legal system, and subsequently became a state of State, and it was a source of the rules of written law. These verbal rules, also known as the Turkish people's law, are a system of rules that the Khan dynasty, the state administrators and the people jointly accept, which are superior to the people and the authorities. The changing belief system, changing geography and geopolitical position, the different communities, states and cultures that are connected to it, and even though these rules and laws are changed, it is not hot to change them in general. In this study, the effects, prohibitions and penalties on state administration and social order in the Manas of Turkish folk law, which was formed in pre-Islamic period with an oral tradition, will be determined and examined. This review is limited to the first volume of the work “Eastern Turkestan Kyrgyz variant Manas epic” by Yusuf Mamay.

  • Issue Year: 11/2019
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 450-462
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish