The Däftär-i Čingiz-nāmä is an anonymously written testament/chronicle of Volga Tatar oral stories.[1] Composed in the late 17th century, though not based on historical fact, it gives insight into the qazaq(wandering warrior/outcast/runaway) way of life.[1]
Mongol genealogy
editThe Däftär-i Čingiz-nāmä gives an indepth look at the ancestry of Genghis Khan, while giving a narrative legend of the fictitious "qazaq" life of Temur and Genghis Khan.[1]
Among the Volga Tatars to become a "qazaq"(qazaq čïq) was an expression meaning to leave one's home and become a wanderer.[2]
Early Qazaqs
editA renegade military troop (hazāra) that abandoned a son of Temür was referred to as "qazaq" in the early fifteenth-century book Ẓafar-nāmas.[3] Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a number of marauding or vagabond tribes, such as the Don Cossacks and the Zaporozhian Cossacks, emerged in the Black Sea steppes.[4] These communities came to be known by the term "qazaq."[4]
Modern version
editDilyara Usmanova, professor of History at Kazan Federal University, states the Däftär-i Čingiz-nāmä is among the most significant works of the Volga region's literary history.[5] Usmanov and M. Ivanics edited the Däftär-i Čingiz-nāmä in 2002.[6]
References
editSources
edit- Lee, Joo-Yup (2016). Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs. Brill.
- Усманова, Диляра (2006). Источники и исследования по истории татарского народа: материалы к учебным курсам [Sources and research on the history of the Tatar people: materials for training courses] (in Russian). Казанский гос. университет.
- Vásáry, István (2009). "The Beginnings of Coinage in the Blue Horde". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 62, No. 4 (December). Akadémiai Kiadó: 371–385.
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