Kazan Oğuznâmesi: Orijinalliği, Yazılış Tarihi, Coğrafyası, Dili
The Kazan Oghuznāmeh: Originality, Date Of Composition, Place, Its Language

Summary/Abstract: The Kazan Oghuznāmeh is a variant of the Arabographic Oghuznāmeh manuscripts which, according to the tradition in Turkology, is called in this way due to the place where it has been found. The work intended to be a narrative about the Afshar, according to its content, however if to remove the passages about the Afshars embedded sporadicadically to the text it turns out that it is a sort of “collage” from different historiographical source in Turkic. On the other hand, this very fact also misleads researchers, mainly in terms of clarifying the localization of the manuscript and determining the linguistics features of its text. The manuscript does not contain precise information about when, where, by and for whom it was written. However, the historical events of the time of Timur Shah Durrānī’s second ruler of Durrānī dynasty, until the time of Nimatullah Khan, son of Rahmatullah Khan, who holds the administration of Andhoy, give a clue that the work should have written in the domain of the Afshars, who settled in South Turkestan (in present north Afghanistan). In this paper, the author aims not only to determine the date of the composition of the manuscript but also to establish which linguistic geography of Turkic it may belong to. The author also argues on the question of whether this manuscript can be classified as original work and questions the reliability of its author intensions pointing at different moments in the text that a historical author can mislead a contemporary researcher.

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