Sufi Tradition in Spiritual Culture of the Golden Horde

Abstract

The author considers the special nature of the penetration of the Sufi tradition in the spiritual culture of the Golden Horde. Being a part of the spiritual culture, literary monuments from the Golden Horde epoch played a significant role in the spread of Islam in the Golden Horde. Islam rooted in the Golden Horde thanks to the fact that Sufism gave the Muslim form to the Turkic-Mongolian beliefs. The «Nahj al-Faradis» («Pathway to the Heavens»), the literary monument from the Golden Horde era, narrates about the introduction and diffusion of Islam in the Turkic-Mongolian religious and mundane traditions.

Keywords

• The Golden Horde
• Islam
• Sufism
• spiritual culture
• medieval literature
• «Nahj al-Faradis»
• Mahmoud al-Bulgari.