ISSUES OF SOURCE STUDIES IN THE WORKS OF THE FOLLOWERS OF YASSAWI

Abstract

This article deals with the works of the poets of the poetry school called Poets of the Yassawiya School, founded by Ahmad Yassavi. As its content has come via manuscript sources, the work derives its core from manuscripts kept at the Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu Rayhan Beruni under the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The poets of this school are introduced through examples illustrating comparisons in their works. The research analyses the usage of their work in manuscripts and shows the growth in their number. We have tried to analyze and logically group those manuscripts retained in the institute fund we mentioned. Next, we looked through the writing methods used in various works and made some comparative analyses. The research touched on projects related to poetic storytelling written by the poets and offered several solutions to solve some issues related to their belongingness to this school. It showed the need for serious source study and linguistic analysis. Reflecting on the current problems facing the researchers of Yassawi’s work, we can say that the works of his followers require serious study, that the creation of a catalog of manuscripts is an urgent task. Currently, insufficiencies in research done over Yassawi studies are vivid, this creates a great need to initiate the stud over the works of their followers. Moreover, it illustrates an immense need to study each manuscript, their writing method, and the structure where their projects exist. Here, we did comparative analyses of some poetic text of stories in manuscripts attributed to Ahmad Yassawi from a methodological point of view for compliance with the style of Yassawi before including the results of the research. In the study of the work of Yassawi, there have been no cases of writing poetic stories. We have to take this issue seriously and not rush to conclusions. With this regard, we compared the poems attributed to Yassawi to the works of his followers.