Paper long abstract:

I argue that in contemporary Kazakhstan we witness the rise of private hagiographies about local so called "tribal" saints such as Beket-Ata of Mangistau peninsula. Beket -Ata is associated as the aulia (saint) and patron of Kazakh Adai tribe whose miraculous deeds are highly praised in this part of Kazakhstan. Today it is quite easy to see in local markets and books shops, books or modern hagiographies (which often published by small private publishing houses) devoted to the memory of saintly figures as Beket-Ata. In this research I would focus on this type of Muslim sacred genre on the rise or ( or reemergence??) of this tradition of saintly sacred hagiographies.