COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL STUDY OF TOPONOMIC MYTH AND LEGENDS IN THE “HISTORY OF BUKHARA” BY ABU BAKR NARSHAKHI

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This article examines the genesis and artistic evolution of epic plots in medieval written sources in the study of Uzbek folk toponymic prose. KEYWORDS: - Legend, myth, saying, fable, tale, “History of Bukhara”, “Badiai khurdak”, “Owner of peacock”, “Mokh”, “Afrasiab”. "History of Bukhara" by the talented historian of the I NTRODUCTION X century Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Jafar Narshakhi . The study of the historical development and artistic Originally born and raised in the village of evolution of epic plots preserved through written Narshakhi near Bukhara, Abu Bakr Narshakhi sources has important scientific value in covering wrote his famous History of Bukhara in 943-944 the evolution of a particular folklore work over after gaining a comprehensive knowledge of the several centuries, as well as in determining the history, geography, ethnography and literature of genesis and formation process of epic works the peoples and countries of the East. This work is recorded directly during live performance. In order included in the scientific and historical literature to show the place of folklore works included in "History of Narshakhi" ("History of Narshakhi"), medieval written sources in the historical evolution "History of Bukhara" ("History of Bukhara"), of the plot system of Uzbek folk toponymic myths "Tahqiq ul-viloyat" ("Determining the truth of the and legends in this scientific information, we region"), "News of Bukhara" ("About Bukhara"). analyzed the materials of folklore in the book messages”). However, the well-known name "History of Bukhara" fully corresponds to the CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL 62 SCIENCES ISSN – 2767-3758 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjps CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2(12): 62-66, December 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-12-13 ISSN 2767-3758 ©2021 Master Journals Accepted08thDecember, 2021 & Published 13thDecember, 2021 essence of this work. events in the oasis and lived in this area also collected historical myths and legends narrating the The great historian tells about the history of activities of real historical figures. When writing Bukhara, the description of the surrounding "History of Bukhara", he widely used these folklore villages, the city's guzars, monuments, its materials as an "oral historical source". For peculiarities, rulers and events that took place here, example, in the History of Bukhara we read about as well as the use of original historical and the village of Tavois in the present-day Kyzyltepa geographical works, as well as folklore materials. , district: “Yana Tavois. He is from Bukhara region in particular, refers many times to myths, legends, and his real name is Arkud. It was inhabited by parables, parables, and stories. The scholar's skill in people who loved the rich and beautiful. Since Zebu the effective use of folklore sources is especially was given ornaments, everyone kept one or two evident in places where the need to interpret the peacocks in his house for ornaments. When the meaning of a place name arises. Arabs (before coming here) had not seen the peacock before, they saw many peacocks here, and Abu Bakr Narshakhi used two different methods to called the village "Zot ut-tavois" - "Owner of the convey the myths and legends associated with place Peacocks," but its original name has been forgotten; names. According to the first method, the historian who later dropped the word "zot" and renamed it refers to epic works that have been popularized "Tavois" (p. 20). orally among the people in order to prove that the name of a particular place has a history of origin or The toponymic legend about the origin of the name that it was once called by another name. For of the market "Bozori Moh Roz", which existed in example, in the chapter devoted to the description Bukhara in the X century, shows that in ancient of Karmana, he writes that in order to prove that times the tradition of monism, ie the cult of the the place was formerly called "Bodyayi khurdak", moon, was widespread among the population of "The parable says that in ancient times Carmina this region. According to Narshakhi, “This market was called" Bodyayi khurdak "("Bowl") [1]. Here existed in our time; I would be very surprised why the word "parable" is used in the genre of folklore, such a habit was painted; From the elders and that is, in the sense of narration, narration, legend. sheikhs of Bukhara: "What is the reason for this?" I Elsewhere, the historian uses terms and phrases asked. They replied, "In ancient times, the people of such as "narrative," and "narrated," when referring Bukhara were idolaters, and this market was a to examples of folk prose. picture. It is noteworthy that the above passage contains information confirming that the legends T and myths that served as an “oral historical source” HE MAIN FINDINGS AND RESULTS for Narshakhi were recorded directly during the live performance. This is the story of the autho