Abstract:

There are many works related to Turks’ being Muslims in the Turkish Information literature. The collections of biographies of Satuk Bugra khan are the most known of these works. From the days they have existed up to present, they have been narrated by the public in the Central Asia and Anatolia and they have become an important element of verbal culture. The story of “Four Imams” which is often seen in these Satuk Bugra Khan accounts is one of these works. In the work, it is told that the four heroes named Nasreddin, Muineddin, Zuhureddin, Kıvameddin who stand out in the wars made to spread Islam during the period of Yusuf Kadir Khan from the rulers of the Karahan (= Karakhanid) State. They are known as "four imams" in their period due to their loyalty to Islam and their services. In this study, the work has been examined in terms of sentence information, and the sentences existing in the work have been classified according to their structures and places, types and meanings of the predicate.

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