Baba Tükti Shashty Aziz
Nogai · mortal · Nogai traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Baba Tükti Shashty Aziz, the 'Hairy Saint', is the sanctified forefather of the Manghıt and Nogai princely line and a central figure of the Islamization legends of the Golden Horde. In the conversion story he vindicates Islam by sitting unharmed in a fiery oven; in the epic tradition he weds a peri of the unseen world, and it is from this union that the hero Edige inherits his otherworldly blood. Sources differ on how many generations separate the saint from Edige, so his exact place in the pedigree is told variously, but he is consistently the holy apex from which the whole lineage draws its charisma.
Domains
- sanctity
- ancestry
Powers
- weds a peri of the unseen world
- endures the fiery oven unburnt
Epithets
- Шашты Азиз — the Hairy SaintDevin DeWeese, Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde (University Park, 1994) (secondary)
Sources
- Baba Tükles is the legendary Muslim holy man and apical ancestor of the Manghıt/Nogai line, whose marriage to a peri furnishes Edige's supernatural descent in the epic.: Devin DeWeese, Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (University Park: Penn State Press, 1994) (secondary); V. M. Zhirmunsky, Tyurkskiy geroicheskiy epos (Leningrad: Nauka, 1974) (secondary)