UYGHUR VERSIONS OF THE EPIC “TAHIR AND ZOHRA”

Abstract

In the wide geography the texts included in the Uyghur version of the epic “Tahir and Zohra”, spread mainly among the Turkic peoples, were collec­ted and published by scholars such as G.Yarring and G.Raguette from East Turkes­tan in the first half of the twentieth century. Later, other Uyghur ver­sions of the epic were revealed. Although these texts are similar in structure and general plot with versions of the epic written from other Turkic peoples, they also have differences in the system of images, episodes and motifs. In the ar­ticle the date of collection and publication of these texts, the degree of study, featu­res, the system of images and other issues are studied.