Abay Studies Alash

Abstract

This article is the first to examine Abay studies, starting from the period of the repressed Alash to the period  of independence. The first studies of Abay returned to the scientific circulation only in 1988. These highly  professional literary works for the first time laid the theoretical foundations of scientific research of creativity  of Abay Kunanbayev. These are articles by A. bukeikhan, A. Baitursynov, M. Dulatov, Zh. Aymautuly,  M. Zhumabay, M. Auezov, S. Toraigyrov, M. Zh. Kopey, R. Marsekov, I. Zhansugurov, K. Zhubanov. These articles are the first to substantiate the theoretical foundations of scientific Abay studies. Only during the  period of independence was the true picture of the formation of Abay studies restored. In the works  of A. Bukeikhan, a list of books read by Abai was compiled for the first time, Abai's poetic skill was highly  appreciated, and it is emphasized that the poet's poems about the seasons are on a par with similar examples  of world classical poetry. In the article of the leading Kazakh poet A. Baitursynov, the theoretical discourse
of the poetic world of Abay is first substantiated. Abayeved analytically identified the narrative and discursive features of the poetic word Abay, focused on the image of eternal universal values. Thus, the universal  value of the national code reflected in the Abai texts has been established. The author of the article comes  to the conclusion that Abay studies of the Alash period is the main stage of formation and development of  scientific Abay studies, so it determines the current development of this scientific branch at the present time