The International Conference of the universities of the Turkic Council countries and Russia will be held on 27-28 November.

On 27-28 November 2020, the International Conference of the universities of the Turkic Council countries and Russia, dedicated to the 950th anniversary of creation of the priceless and incomparable monument of oriental literature, the dastan "Kutadgu Bilig" (https://online.pubhtml5.com/jcpd/cpnl/), will be held.

Organizers of the International Conference are Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, International Organization of Turkic Culture TURKSOY, Istanbul University, Marmara University, Baku State University, M.Auezov South Kazakhstan University, K.Karasayev Bishkek State University, Ankara University, Kazan Federal University, Hacettepe University, St.Petersburg State University, Eotvos Lorand University.

Uzbekistan joined the Turkic Council in 2019. This allowed the country to enhance cooperation with members of the Turkic Council in all spheres, including science, education and culture. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev noted, in particular, that the Turkic people are linked by spiritual values, bonds of cooperation and similarity of languages.

In order to further rapprochement and enhance cooperation with the universities of the Turkic Council countries and Russia, an initiative was taken to hold an International Conference on "Kutadgu Bilig – the Great Monument of World Turkic Studies: Topical problems of its Study”. Our colleagues and partners responded to our proposal and supported the idea of holding the conference together.

The great thinker Yusuf Khass Hajib completed this work in 462 khijra (1069/1070). The work consists of more than 13 thousand stanzas, written in the masnavi genre.

"Kutadgu Bilig" is a work reflecting the ideas of our ancestors about a perfect person, questions about state and public administration, the importance of studying sciences, about morality and culture, about raising children, behavior and human improvement, as well as the philosophical views of that time. This work is an invaluable monument of medieval Turkic written literature. Under its influence, many works were created not only in Turkic literature, but also in all Muslim literature of other regions.

The work "Kutadgu Bilig" is always in the center of attention of scientists all over the world. It has been widely studied by academicians around the world: scientific translations of the work have been published in German, Russian, English, Uzbek, Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, and Kyrgyz languages. Many scientific studies of this work have been carried out, on the basis of which a large number of monographs and articles have been written and published. 2019 was declared by UNESCO as the International Year of Kutadgu Bilig.

Turkologists of Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, partner Universities of the conference and International Organization of Turkic Culture TURKSOY have conducted serious research on the work "Kutadgu Bilig" and became large scientific centers in the field of Turkology.

The International Conference is planned to be attended by 50 speakers from 12 countries, representing 36 universities and organizations of Uzbekistan, Turkey, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Russia, USA, India, Egypt, Iran. Holding this conference will serve to identify the urgent tasks facing oriental scholars, to deepen research in the study of the work “Kutadgu Bilig”, from the source study and textological points of view; to explore more deeply the peculiarities of poetics, language and style of work; issues of correlation between the heritage of Yusuf Khass Hajib and eastern civilization, the idea of the work and development of eastern philosophical knowledge; to consider the issues of educating a new generation of specialists in the study of the classical heritage and solve urgent problems facing orientalists.

We thank the members of the Organizing Committee, speakers and moderators for their support and participation in the conference!

Kudratulla Omonov, Elyor Makhmudov,

Co-chairmen of the Organizing Committee, Vice-Rectors of TSUOS