Ethnographic review of the Beket Ata cult in modern Kazakhstan

Abstract

This research is the short ethnographic survey on the visitation of Muslim aulia (saint)Beket in contemporary Kazakhstan. In this research, I tried to show that Beket`s authority is based on the three major elements which have an important meaning for the local and saint`s followers. Author indicates that about connections of Beket with the sacred families of Central Asia, connection with the two spiritual guides, the first one was Shopan ata, a Sufi spirit or uwaisi and the second one is the reals, Sufi master, from Urgench named Muhammadjon Baqirgani.