A TESTAMENT WRITTEN IN KHWAREZM TURKIC: ADVICE FROM PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO CALIPH ALI

Abstract

Religious texts make up a part of the Turkic texts in Arabic letters. Some of these works, which deal with various subjects and were prepared to teach the Turks the sharia regarding the Islamic religion, have been translated from Arabic or Persian. In the past months, we have received a manuscript whose name, author, copyist and date of copying are unknown. The manuscript is in the private collection of Tunjay SAKALLIOGLU, a researcher from Kastamonu-Turkiye, and consists of several texts related to each other in terms of their subjects. It has come to our attention that the last part of the manuscript was written earlier. As a result of our research, it was estimated that this part had been written in Khwarezmian Turkic. This part consists of the hadiths conveyed by the Prophet Muhammad to Caliph Ali. This manuscript contains 98 hadiths starting with the phrase 'Y? Ali', which is in the form of advice the Prophet gave to Muslims through Ali. Almost all of the hadiths mentioned in the text were found in Arabic in the electronic book titled “Wasiyyetu'n-Nebî li-cAlî bin Ebî ?âlib”, which is available on the internet address "https://ar.lib.eshia.ir/". It can be said that this book is the Turkic translation of Wasiyyetu'n-Nebî li-Ali bin Ebî ?âlib. This study aims to introduce the work to the Turkologist and add a new work to the list of books in Khwarezmian Turkic. The study consists of three main parts: features of the book, text and index, except for the introduction and conclusion. In the features section of the book, the main language features identified are examined after the description of writing. In the text section, the work was transcribed and then an indexed dictionary of the work is provided. A facsimile of the manuscript is added at the end of the study. © 2024 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.