Abstract:

The biggest differences of human being as a social (and cultural) creature are that they can speak (can use the language and symbol, code), they can think and tool. Moreover, they can adapt to all geographical environments, all kinds of vegetation and climate conditions. Thanks to this feature, they were able to live in different parts of the world and they could be shaped by the conditions of his geography in every aspect. Thus, people who became a society by accumulating around a language differentiated from other societies in terms of cultural items because of the changes that were required by lifestyles (e.g. Basing on territories (basing on territories). It is seen that although the Central Asia, homeland of Turks, is a steppe region and Turks essentially have a nomadic style, they changed into sedentation as of Uighurs and from then on, they lived in different parts of the world both nomadic and settled. It is also observed that, even after they adapted to sedentation, they proceeded to keep alive a lot of cultural items of nomadism that is their ancient lifestyle. Language, as the most important element of culture, takes forms in accordance with geographies, vegetations, emotions and thoughts and perceptions of societies. Thanks to this feature of language, the analysis of language texts can inform us about all cultural heritage, lifestyle and world perspectives of societies. In this study, Ahmed B. Mahmud's Selçukname, which is a vital source for not only Turkish history, language and literature but also for Turkish culture due to the information about Oghuz's daily life and cultural items besides Seljuks' ancestry, history, wars and etc., is analyzed in terms of cultural items, nomadism and sedentation and it is concluded that Oghuzs, who were the architect of the settled Turkish-Islamic civilization, kept some cultural elements of the Oghuz's nomadism.

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