SELÇUKLU TÜRKİYESİNDEKİ KONARGÖÇER GRUPLARIN İNANÇLARI ve BUNUN DEVLET DÜZENİNE YANSIMALARI
BELIEFS OF NOMADIC GROUPS IN SELJUQ TURKEY AND THE STATE ORDER THEIR REFLECTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Although the Turks, who accepted Islam a few centuries before coming to Anatolia, certainly adopt the religion of Islam, they could not fully adopt all the aspects of Islam in practice. It was observed that there were some problems in the practices because of the fact that the Turks came to Anatolia as “veteran”, that the resettlement could not be provided suddenly, and that there were very few who had knowledge and equipment about the Islamic religion. This situation caused the Turks to continue their old beliefs, customs, and traditions intensely in their social lives. In the sources about the things that the Turks experienced in the first periods when they accepted Islam, it was seen such expressions as “long-bearded Persian calls for dawn prayer”. From this information, it is understood that the man, who could perform as imam and muezzin, did not come out among themselves in Oghuzs even in the XIV century and that the muezzin who recited the azan were “Persian”. On the other hand, it was obvious that the Turkmen had some behaviors that may contradict the state order and affect the social life negatively, and these behaviours would not be welcomed by the administrators. As a result, due to these negative attitudes taken against them by the Seljuk State, we can observe a nomadic who were more closely connected to their old traditions and beliefs, their lives, and therefore to the cult of ancestors. This will ignite the events that will play an important role in the Oghuzs rebellion during the reign of Sultan Sencer and later in the destruction of Khorasan.

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