DOCTRINE OF SUFISM IN KARAKALPAK PEOPLE'S CULTURAL LIFE

Abstract

The article explores the influence of Sufism on the Karakalpak people's spiritual
and cultural lives. The social and cultural history of the Karakalpak people in the 18th-
19th centuries is connected with the activities of the sheikhs of the Yasawviya and
Naqshbandiya sects. The representatives of Karakalpak literature, Berdaq, Ajiniyaz and
other poets, were nourished by Sufism, inspired by its ideas of humanity and justice, and
further developed the ideas of Sufism in their works.