Аңдатпа
The article aims to reveal the typological character of the Old Kazakh written language, reflecting its affiliation with the book-based system of Islamic civilization, based on a universal theory of written tradition and a comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon. The objectives of the study include: clarifying the concepts of book-based language, Central Asian written literary language, and Chagatai language in connection with the phenomenon of the Old Kazakh written literary language; defining the concepts of the Arab and Persian (Islamic) written tradition in both linguistic and civilizational aspects; identifying the linguistic and discursive features of the Arab-Persian written tradition in the texts of the Old Kazakh written language; and determining the role of the Old Kazakh written language—grounded in the written tradition within the space of Islamic civilization—in the history of Kazakh intellectual culture. The object of the research is the Old Kazakh written literary language as a historical-linguistic and cultural phenomenon. The subject of the research comprises the typological, functional, and genre-stylistic characteristics of the Old Kazakh written language. The research hypothesis is that the Arab and Persian (Islamic) written tradition functions as a civilizational and linguistic model that influenced the structural, functional, and genre formation of the Old Kazakh written language. A comparison between the reductionist approach of the Soviet period, which sought to ignore the Old Kazakh written language, and the concept of the Islamicate has demonstrated the need to consider this phenomenon as a multifaceted cultural and linguistic entity not limited exclusively to religious discourse. The research material consists of texts in the Old Kazakh written language recorded in Arabic script: the chronicle of Qadyrgali Zhalayiri, Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh (16th century), as well as qissa-dastans published in the early 20th century. In addition, studies devoted to the Old Kazakh written language (R. Syzdykova, B. Abilkassymov, G. Mamyrbek) are examined. The theoretical and methodological foundation of the study of the written tradition of the East is based on the works of J. Goody, M. Hodgson, W. Ong, S. Pollock, and others. The article employs historiographical, comparative-historical, and linguistic methods of analysis. The scientific novelty of the research lies in identifying the comprehensive influence of written tradition on linguistic structures. The Old Kazakh written language is examined for the first time as a system formed within a historical and cultural context, grounded in canonical models and norms, and having developed its own norm of written discourse.