SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES OF YERZHAN TOLEGENULY IN MANGYSTAU

Abstract

Archival data show that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the number of mosques in the West Kazakhstan region increased with the rise of Islam. The Mangystau Peninsula has become a region recognized by madrasah mosques aimed at educating the local population. The mosque-madrasah of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the Mangystau Peninsula, considered one of the educational institutions in public education, contained not only religious education, but also humanities, natural sciences, and Arab-Persian sciences. An important research introduction to the article will analyze and define the hierarchy of such religiously literate personalities as Ishan, Mulda, Hazrat, akhun, who possess the above-mentioned fields of science.

The activities of spiritually literate teachers and the mosque-madrasah on the Mangystau Peninsula coincide before the October Revolution and the years of Soviet power. One of them was Yerzhan Tulegenuly.

Yerzhan Tulegenuly was a religiously literate man who graduated from the Bukhara madrasah in 1926. During the years of the establishment of Soviet power, he was repeatedly persecuted by Soviet politics for following a religious path.

The article focuses on the history and essence of the religious tariqa of Yerzhan Tulegenuly, at the stages of the formation of his religious, spiritual, and educational activities. An analysis of Hazrat's handwritten manuscripts will also be conducted.