Studies on Azerbaijan and Turk's History Azərbaycan və Türk tarixi araşdırmaları

TRADİTİONAL TURKİC EPİC HEROS AND HZ.ALİ

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Aynur Gazanfargizi

xezer university

Abstract
The subject of Turkic hero image of Hz.Ali is not been reserached in folklore. Generally Hz.Ali compared with the |Turkic heros of Dede Korkut, Oğuz Kağan, Manas and sometimes with Koroghlu and etc in folkloric texts. Hero form a wholeness with yell, power, angry moods, miracles, horse and sword. Despite the texts about Hz.Ali it could be processed in many sides, were researched only from the side of imamate. The task of state to analyze some of the texts about Hz.Ali, and making a comparison, based on the turkic heroic epos tradition, to show that, Hz.Ali described in the folkloric texts not as imam but like Turkic epic hero. In this way the state will change the perspective to accept Hz Ali not only imam, but also as a hero of turkic epos.
We used search scanning and comparison method in the article.In this way we had the chance to access many texts. While writing the article we based not only the texts collected form Azerbaijan, also based on the battletexts (cenkname) collected from Trukey. Generally we applied the batlle texts about Hz.Ali, scinetific articles also.

Keywords

Folklore
Hz.Ali
epic hero
horse of hero
sword of hero
miracles of hero
birth of hero
Subjects
Studies on Azerbaijan and Turk's History Azərbaycan və Türk tarixi araşdırmaları
Volume 1, Issue 10
Spring 2026
Pages 63-87

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