CURRENT ISSUES IN THE FORMATION OF THE KAZAK KHANATE: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES

Abstract

The article describes some political events of the XIV-XV centuries associated 
with the formation of the Kazakh Khanate. In the middle of the 15th century. In Zhetysu, the 
most important ethno-political processes took place related to the creation of a new political 
union, which went down in history as the Kazakh Khanate. This event determined the entire 
subsequent ethnopolitical history of Kazakhstan, contributed to the consolidation of the Kazakh 
people into a nation, the formation of an ethnic territory, and the development of the spiritual and material culture of the Kazakh people. The article provides a short overview of the historiography and written sources related to these events. One of the real written information 
about the Kazakh Khanate that has reached us is the work of Muhammad Haydar Dulati “Tarikh-i-Rashidi”. In general, this work is devoted to the history of the Mongol Khanate. 
However, due to the political situation of that time, a lot of information is given about the Kazakh Khanate. Abulgazy, Kadyrgali Zhalairi left information about the Kazakh Khanate and 
its rulers in their works. At the same time, export data relating to the period of the Kazakh Khanate is very important