THE EPOS OF “THE BOOK OF DEDE GORGUD” IN THE CONTEXT OF ISLAM EPOCH

“The Book of Dede Gorgud” reflects not only the views dealing Islam religious, also the history, culture, ethnopsychology of Oghuz people. The first sentence of this monument gives an opportunity to understand the whole context of “The Book of Dede Gorgud” and all the essence of Islam. As you know, the identity of Gorgud the sacred man of Oghuz, “The father”, the olders, also the national identity finds its confirmation in the shade of Islam prophet name. In the songs the parallelism of religious and unreligious behavior acts shows that the concept dealing with the “the transition to Islam” is a true attitude. In the epos not only Godliness-Islam relations but also “Godliness-Christianity-Islam” religious are reflected. Between the Oghuz who transmitted “From Godliness behavior acts to Islam behavior formulas there are men who talks to the transfer to Christianity as Uruz, the son of Salur Gazan. In the epos the speaking of the heroes who is “clever and intelligence” gives us an opportunity to speak the reflection of Sufizm views in the epos. In the Turkic epic tradition there is no another source that encourage Islam like “The Book of Dede Gorgud”. Islam penetrating to the spirit of “The Book of Dede Gorgud” transformed it “the main idea” of nation book of the new period