THE ONLY COPY OF THE MANUSCRIPT "MAORIFUN NASAB" BY BABAJAN SANOI IN THE BERLIN STATE LIBRARY

Abstract

This article presents the characteristics of the manuscript "Majorifun nasab" ("Enlightenment of genealogies"), stored in a single copy in the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), a talented poet, historian and mystic scientist Babajan Sanoi, who lived in the Khanate of Khiva (present Khorezm region of Uzbekistan) in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The volume of the manuscript is 390 pages and consists of the introduction and five chapters. Maorifun NASAB is dedicated to the history of the Khiva Khanate and was created following the proposal of Eltuuzar Khan (XIX century). In the description of historical events, the author used many poems and narches. This work was studied by the Uzbek and foreign scientists as V.V. Bartold, Yu. Bregel, F. Gofman, Zaki Validia Togon, N. Komilov, Sh. Shakirova, etc. The study was done within the framework of the innovative project "Creation of a database of Turkic manuscripts stored in European funds outside Uzbekistan” and an electronic platform "Euroturcologica.uz", implemented at the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies.The goal of study within the framework of this project is the Turkic manuscripts stored in European funds that are not available in Uzbekistan.