Dresden manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān (The Book of my Grandfather Korkut according to the language of the tribe of the Oghuz)[1] Vatican manuscript: Hikāyet-ı Oġuznāme-ı Kazan Beġ ve Gayrı (The Story of Oguzname, Kazan Beg and the Others)[2] Gonbad manuscript: Cild-i Duyyum-i Kitāb-i Türkmän (ä)lsānî ("The Second Volume of the Book of the Turkmens")[3]
Language
Oghuz Turkic
Subject(s)
The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turks.
Genre(s)
Epic poetry
Publication date
c. 14th or 15th century
Heritage of Dede Qorqud/Korkyt Ata/Dede Korkut, epic culture, folk tales and music
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
Country
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey
Reference
01399
Region
Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription
2018 (13th session)
List
Representative
The Book of Dede Korkut or Book of Korkut Ata (Azerbaijani: کتاب دده قورقود, romanized: Kitabi-Dədə Qorqud; Turkmen: Kitaby Dädem Gorkut; Turkish: Dede Korkut Kitabı) is the most famous among the dastans or epic stories of the Oghuz Turks. The stories carry morals and values significant to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turkic peoples and their pre-Islamic beliefs. The book's mythic narrative is part of the cultural heritage of the peoples of Oghuz origin, mainly of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Turkmenistan.[4] Only two manuscripts of the text, one in the Vatican and one in Dresden, were known before a third manuscript was discovered in a private collection in Gonbad-e Kavus, Iran, in 2018.
The epic tales of Dede Korkut are some of the best-known Turkic dastans from among a total of well over 1000 recorded epics among the Turkic and Mongolian language families.[5]
^Karl Reichl (2011). Medieval Oral Literature. p. 687.
^Felix J. Oinas (1978). Heroic Epic and Saga: An Introduction to the World's Great Folk Epics. p. 312.
^Azmun, Yusuf (29 January 2020). "The New Dädä Qorqut Tales from the Recently-Found Third Manuscript of the Book of Dädä Qorqut". Journal of Old Turkic Studies. 4 (1): 18. doi:10.35236/jots.677980.
^Barthold (1962)""The book of my grandfather Korkut" ("Kitab-i dedem Korkut") is an outstanding monument of the medieval Oghuz heroic epic. Three modern Turkic-speaking peoples - Turkmens, Azerbaijanis and Turks - are ethnically and linguistically related to the medieval Oghuzes. For all these peoples, the epic legends deposited in the "Book of Korkut" represent an artistic reflection of their historical past."
^Rinchindorji. "Mongolian-Turkic Epics: Typological Formation and Development" Archived 2017-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Trans. by Naran Bilik, Oral Tradition, 16/2, 2001, p. 381
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