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Introduction to Dede Korkut

H. B. Paksoy, D. Phil. "Introduction to DEDE KORKUT" (As Co-Editor) SOVIET ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY Vol. 29, No. 1. Summer 1990. and "M. Dadashzade on the Ethnographic Information Concerning Azerbaijan Contained in the DEDE KORKUT dastan." SOVIET ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY Vol. 29, No. 1. Summer 1990. [Reprinted in H. B. Paksoy, Ed. CENTRAL ASIA READER: The Rediscovery of History (New York/London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994) 201 Pp. + Index. ISBN 1-56324-201-X (Hardcover); ISBN 1-56324- 202-8 (pbk.) LC CIP DK857.C45 1993 958-dc20] Memmed Dadashzade Ethnographic Information Concerning Azerbaijan Contained in the Dede Korkut Dastan Editor's Introduction Dede Korkut, one of the historical treasures of a large portion of Central Asia, is a dastan, ``the principal repository of ethnic identity, history, customs and the value systems of its owners and composers.... It commemorates ... struggles for freedom.''1 Dede Korkut has been rendered into a number of languages over the last two centuries, since it caught the attention of H.F. Von Diez, who published a partial German translation in 1815, based on a manuscript found in the Royal Library of Dresden. The only other manuscript of Dede Korkut was discovered in 1950 by Ettore Rossi in the Vatican library. Until Dede Korkut was transcribed on paper, the events depicted therein survived in the oral tradition, at least from the ninth and tenth centuries.2 The ``Bamsi Beyrek'' chapter of Dede Korkut preserves almost verbatim the immensely popular Central Asian dastan Alpamysh, dating from even an earlier time.3 Editio princeps of Dede Korkut was made by Kilisli Rifat [Bilge] in 1916 in Istanbul, which was followed by that of Orhan Saik Gokyay (Istanbul, 1938). The first full-text, ``Baku Edition'' of Dede Korkut was made by H. Arasli in 1939 (reprinted in 1962 with an annotated introduction and again in 1977). V.V. Bartold's Kniga moego dede Korkuta, on which he probably began work in the 1890s, was posthumously issued

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