Book of Dede Korkut

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Book of Dede Korkut is Illiad for Oghuz Turks. If this book is Illiad. Dede Korkut is Homer. He is teller of the stories. He is also inside the story. Finally, I have finished ithis book.

The stories form 13,14 or 15th century. Some people believe that it is older then it  

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Geoffery Lewis dates it fairly early in the 15th century^[2]^[3]
 with an older substratum of these oral traditions dating to conflicts 
between the ancient Oghuz and their Turkish rivals in Central Asia (the Pecheneks and the Kipchaks). However, according to him, this substratum has been clothed in references to the 14th-century campaigns of the Akkoyunlu Confederation. Cemal Kafadar mentions that it was no earlier than the 15th century^[4] based on the fact that the author is buttering up both the Akkoyunlu and Ottoman ruler. Stanford Jay Shaw (1977) in his history of the Ottoman empire dates it in the 14th century.^[5]
 Professor Michael E. Meeker believes that the stories and songs have 
emerged no earlier than the beginning of the 13th century and were 
written down no later than the beginning of the 15th century.^[6] Some scholars in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan place it in the 8th century^{[citation needed]}. A precise determination is impossible to come by due to the nomadic lifestyle of the early Turkic people,
 where epics such as Dede Korkut were passing from generation to 
generation in an oral form. This is especially true of an epic book such
 as this, which is a product of a long series of narrators, any of whom 
could have made alterations and additions, right down to the two 
16th-century scribes who authored the oldest extant manuscripts.^[7] The majority of scholars of ancient Turkic epics and folk tales, such as Russian-Soviet academician Vasily Bartold and British scholar Geoffrey Lewis, believe that the Dede Korkut text "exhibits a number of features characteristic of Azeri, the Turkish dialect of Azerbaijan".^[8]

There are two old copies of the book;
one in Vatican which have 8 stories in it
one in Royal Library of Dresden in Germany, which have 12 stories in it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Dede_Korkut

Edited by Ollios - 19-Oct-2013 at 13:43