Abstract
Classical literature of East Turkestan in the 17th - 18th centuries in the context of the strengthening of political Sufism in the region is of great interest to Turkologists, orientalists and creative individuals, as well as those interested in history and culture and wishing to touch the wealth of the Sufi tradition. The relevance of the study and continuous source replenishment of knowledge on the tradition of classicism in the literature of East Turkestan in the 17th - 18th centuries is explained by the extremely complex state of domestic science in this area and a certain similarity of modern problems in Central Asia with the problems inherent in this period. The scientific novelty of this article is seen in the generalization of theoretical judgments on the classical literature of modern times and the analysis of specific sources, poetic texts of the authors of that period, in particular: Zalili, Hirkati, Nobiti, Kharabati, Hamushakhun, Shah Hijran, Mashuri, Shairakhun, Mukhammat Sidik Kashkari, Gumnam and others. It was during this period that many masterpieces of the verbal art of the Uyghur people were created. Some texts with direct Sufi content are given for the first time in a comparative plan with samples of Kazakh literature. Sufi poetic culture of the specified period, continuing the successive traditions of previous eras, had an unconditional influence on the figurative structure of the literature of Eastern Turkestan and later on, on modern Uyghur verbal art. As a result of studying Sufi traditions in the classical literature of Eastern Turkestan of the 18th century. In comparative terms, it was revealed that the political confrontation of the khojas is not related to the worldview of Sufi movements and orders, directly.There is no ideological struggle in the poetic texts.