M.KH. DULATY’S WORK “TARIKH-I-RASHIDI” AS AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC LEGACY

In the article, forming the Kazakh Khanate, the events happened in Djetisu and East Deshti-Kypchak, falling of Mongolistan, feudal wars, interunion of Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek people against the external enemies, according to all this information the author is thoroughly describing the most topical problems of the period observed. Also the social-economic condition of the South and East Kazakhstan of the XV-XVI centuries, the historical geography of Djetisy in the medieval Kazakhstan, having told about the town and agricultural culture, pointed the names of famous people who participated in the political events of that period, the state of Mogulstan, the passed history of Kazakh Khanate are thoroughly discovered. Through this work we can get a valuable information according to the history of Kazakh people in the medieval period. Because this work is considered as the own history of Kazakh people, its real chronicle.