Reflections on the Islamic Literature of the Golden Horde: On the Occasion of the Publication of the Qalandar-nāme

• Published in: Zolotoordynskoe obozrenie = Golden Horde review Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 264 - 271
• Main Author: Schamiloglu U.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: State Institution «Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences 29-06-2021
• Subjects: golden horde; nähc ül-färadis; qalandar-nāme
• ISSN: 2308-152X; 2313-6197
• DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2021-9-2.264-271

This article was presented at a roundtable devoted to a discussion of the Qalandar-nāme. The author, basing himself on the 9 chapters of the monumental Qalandar-nāme published to date with commentary, tries to compare this work with what else is known about Islamic civilization in the Golden Horde in this period. In particular, he exa­mines the account of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa and compares the Persian-language Qalandar-nāme with the Turkic works on the history of the prophets (Qısas ül-änbiya), a Sufi manual (Mucin ül-mürid), two romantic poems (Qutb’s Xusrev u Şirin and Khorezmi’s Muhabbätname), and a handbook of Islam (Nähc ül-färadis). The author finds similarities between the works of Sufi literature and the Qalandar-nāme. He concludes by posing a series of questions for future researchers, including whether this work can also be seen as a response to the Black Death, similar to the Nähc ül-färadis, as the author has argued elsewhere.