INFORMATION OF TURKISH-SPEAKING SOURCES ABOUT RELATIONS OF THE CENTRAL ASIAN KHUNST AND THE OTTOMAN STATE

Abstract

The article analyzes the political and diplomatic relations of the Ottoman Empire and the Central Asian khanates on the basis of documents from Turkic-language sources introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. An analysis of the Ottoman and Central Asian documents, identified by us in the Turkic-speaking sources, led to the conclusion that initially the ideas of a political union and unification with the Ottoman Empire on the basis of a single religion came from the Central Asian rulers. The revealed materials allow shedding light on the history of relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Central Asian khanates in the first half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. On the basis of previously unknown documents, the course and chronology of relations between the Central Asian states and the Ottoman Empire are considered, their assessment is given through the prism of the ideological ideas about the place of religion in the life of society that dominated the Ottoman leadership. This allows us to take a fresh look at the history of international relations in Central Asia and the ideological influence on them from the outside. The peoples of Central Asia were also interested with written Turkish literature. The manuscripts written in the Middle Ages in the Ottoman state in Arabic, Persian and Turkish are kept in the manuscript fund of the Institute of Oriental Studies named after Abu RaikhanBeruni of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. The main trade port of the Caspian Sea, Baku, was the center of trade handicrafts for Central Asian merchants, where they could conduct trade relations with European merchants. ... The letters of the Central Asian rulers to the Ottoman sultans reveal the fact that in the late 18th and mid-19th centuries, diplomatic, cultural, trade and economic relations existed between the two sides.