Modern science cannot boast of a large number of scientists who go against well-known historical dates and facts. One of them - Murad Aji - not only dared to take such a step, but also became popular in this field. His hypothesis about the resettlement of the Kipchak Turks caused a wide resonance among the scientific community of historians and ordinary readers. Thus, he made friends and envious people. Who is Murad Aji?
Biography and creative life
Murad Adji is the pseudonym of Adzhiev Murad Escenderovich, a Kumyk writer and historian. Born in Moscow on December 9, 1944. Graduate of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University in 1969. Then, as a result of competitive selection, he got a job at the Institute of Finance and Economics at the Department of Geography. In addition to the main one, he has the profession of a scientific journalist and TV presenter.
In 1989, she left the department to work for the magazine Around the World. He was engaged in photography and writing essays about small nations, which determined his future path as a writer. Murad began to explore the history of the Kumyks. A series of essays formed the basis of the book “We Are From the Family of Polovetsky”, which was released in 1992 and led to the dismissal of the writer from the editorial office. He is currently a freelance writer.
Over his entire career, he has authored about 400 articles and 30 popular science books, including works for young people and children, published in both Russian and English. One of the special books for Murad Aji is “Siberia: XX Century”, which was included in the list of banned books of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Hypothesis about the origin of the Turks
According to the author, in the 1st millennium BC. The Great Migration of Peoples began, which lasted about 10 centuries. The source was Central Asia (or Ancient Altai). Northern India, Indochina, the Middle and Middle East, as well as Europe began to be settled by the Turks, which led to their wide geographical and cultural distribution in the Middle Ages.
Murad Aji believes that the TĂĽrks have distinctive features that represent them as a whole: patterns and ornaments on products, the alphabet, writing and faith in the one god Tengri. According to the author, it was the name of the creator, which had a religious character, that became the term uniting the Turkic-speaking peoples as a single whole. Over time, contacts of other peoples with the Turks led to the creation or renewal of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. According to this hypothesis, the ancient Turkic language was a means of communication between representatives of these religions and was sacred.
History of TĂĽrks
From the hypothesis, it becomes clear that for the writer under the pseudonym Murad Aji, the history of the Turks is the main theme of the work, because it is she who runs the red thread through the entire creative path of the author. The first study was presented in the report on the example of the ethnogenesis of the Kumyk people at the symposium “Law and Ethnos” in the international format. In the work, the author spoke in detail about the territory of residence, the socio-state and cultural structure of the ancient Turks.
According to the hypothesis of the author, Desht-i-Kipchak occupied the territory from Lake Baikal to the Atlantic, including modern Russia, and was the predecessor of Russia, and the Turkic-speaking peoples (Balkars, Kumyks, Karachais, etc.) were descendants of those ancient Turks. The author outlined his theory with geography and chronology of relocation in the books “We are from the Polovtsian clan” and “Wormwood of the Polovtsian field”.
The next book, “The Secret of St. George, or Presented by Tengri: From the Spiritual Heritage of the Türks,” tells about the formation of Christianity on the basis of Tengrism, a religion professed by the Kipchaks (ancient Türks). The theme of the Great Migration continues in several other works of Murad Aji. A special place is occupied by the book “Breath of Armageddon” - the history of Caucasian Albania and the wars that began in the 16th century and take place in the modern world.
About Kazakhs
The author’s research in the search for the roots of the Kumyk people brought him to Kazakhstan. What does Murad Aji write about the Kazakhs? The writer believes that these people are descendants of the Kipchak Turks, who were forced to forget about the past and given a new name. This means that Kazakhstan is Desht-i-Kipchak - a country that had a highly developed civilization. It was the Kipchaks who invented the method of smelting ore and creating such tools as a plow, a wagon, a brick, and a furnace. These inventions improved the life of the Kipchaks (Turks) and led to the resettlement to India, North Africa, the Near and Middle East, and then to Europe.
Until the 16th century, the population of these countries spoke the ancient Turkic language and professed Tengrianism. According to Murad Aji, Roman, Byzantine, Chinese and Persian civilizations became dependent on the Turks and paid tribute to the Kipchaks. The state of Desht-i-Kipchak lasted until the 17th century, until Peter the Great conquered the free lands of the Cossacks.
Selected works of Murad Aji
Murad Aji, whose books cause mixed reviews from both historians and ordinary readers, believes that the dismissal from the magazine’s editorial staff led to the birth of a free writer and allowed him to delve into research on Kipchak Turks. He detailed his ideas in the following works:
- “Wormwood of the Polovtsian field”;
- "The Mystery of St. George, or the Presented Tengri";
- "Europe, the Turks, the Great Steppe";
- Kipchaks;
- “Türks and the world: a secret story.
Historians and readers find many contradictions in these works with known dates and facts, but Murad explains this discrepancy by the fact that between the Greeks and Romans there was a conspiracy against the TĂĽrks, so historical documents were falsified.
Murad Aji: book reviews
Murad Aji's books aroused great interest both in Russia and in Turkic-speaking countries. This is not to say that the reviews are positive, as historians consider his works to be pseudoscientific, without a basis of logic and a serious scientific base. But, despite the attacks of historians, the works of Murad Aji in some Russian universities are included in the lists of recommended literature, and scientists of various specialties mention his works in their scientific research works.
Although the hypothesis about the resettlement of the Turks was not widespread, Aji is considered one of the significant people who influenced the history of Altai. In addition, Baku Slavic University recognized the book “Wormwood of the Polovtsian Field” as the best work on Turkic history, literature and language.