The philosophy of Khwaja Ahmad Yasawi'sasthebasis of the islamic worldview of turks

Abstract

The article analyzesthe activities and outlook of Khwaja AhmadYasawi as the founder of Sufism, the Turkic branch of Islam. There are numer­ous written records about the identity, activity of Khwaja Ahmad Yasawi, which characterize him as one of he pillars of Turkic culture. The conclu­sion about the nature of his religious and philosophical worldview based on the analysis of his work «Diwani-i-Khikmet». Based on the pantheistic idea of the dissolution of God in nature, man comes to thinking about the possibility of moral perfection through the knowledge of God. This paper examines this work as the founder of Sufism, which has such important aspects as: the adaptation of Islam to the Turkic environment, the Associa­tion of Turkic peoples into a single cultural and political community, the creation of the order of Yasawi, raising the status of Turkic language, ac­quaintance through khikmets with Eastern philosophy and poetry.