Symbols of Sufi culture in Tatar literature of the XV-XVI centuries

This article is devoted to the analysis of Sufi symbols in the Tatar poetry of the 15th-16th centuries. The historical line of succession of Islamic culture from Volga Bulgaria to the era of the Kazan Khanate can be clearly seen in the examples of the common symbolic images in Sufi poetry. The Bolgar-Tatar Islamic culture of the Middle Ages contains Quranic and esoteric symbolic forms, which are especially clearly traced in Sufi literature. This paper presents hermeneutic analysis of some poetic works written by the poets of this era, such as Muhammediyar, Kul Sharif and Ummi Kamal. It reveals the presence of the symbolic forms of Sufism that continue the traditions of tariqat by Yasawiyya on the example of the common images in Khikmet by A. Yasawi and other works of the Kazan Khanate. Also this work provides the examples of research on several poems with the Russian interlinear translation. The hermeneutic analysis of the symbols is performed by using the methodology, which was tested by the author in his previous works on the basis of famous Sufi treatises according to esotericism of Islam.