Some Comments on the Study of “Devonu Lug'otit Turk”

This article analyzes the sources for the study of Mahmud Kashgari'sDevonulug'otitturk and the opinions expressed about them in the work. AbduraufFitrat was the first in Uzbekistan to be interested in Devonulug'otitturk. In the mid-1920s, he collected all the poems in Devon and translated them into Uzbek. Fitrat was the first to group the poems in Devon into one or another subject, giving them a separate title, and to include them in his 1927 book, Samples of Old Turkish Literature.