Professions reflect the lifestyles of the societies. Having been looked at the
professions and the importance that given to this professions, can be gained
an idea about the cultural structure of the society. The structuring of the
craft guilds also illuminates the state organisation. According to its language
characterictics Risale-i Kaçacılık, which was written at the end of the
XVIIIth century and the beginning of the XIXth century, after classical era
of Eastern Turkish, where at Uighur Autonomous region in the People’s
Republic of China, particularly supposed to be written in Kashgar or Hoten,
is a pamhlet of profession. The pamphlet, its author is unknown, carries the
features of fütüvvetname. It’s mentioned at this pamphlet that the necessity
of doing the works with a religious ritual and ethical rules, rather than what
is profession of pottery or how it done. With this point of wiev, it makes us
thinking that Ahi organization and fütüvvetname tradition which had been
playing a major role among the craftsmen and tradesman since XIIIth
century, also plays a role at east Turkish field. In this idea, effects of the
tradition of kesbname which rose in India at the time of Mogol rule and than
spreaded in Maveraünnehir and the tradition of akılık which was important
among the old Turkish tribes and comminities, is great.
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Publication Date | June 21, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 27 Issue: 1 |