Features of muslim burial rite in Ob Tomsk river region

In article on the basis of the statistical analysis of a funeral ceremony of medieval necropolises Ob-Tomsk River region is made attempt of allocation of group of burials with elements of a Muslim funeral ceremony. Two major signs of a Muslim funeral ceremony can be authentically archaeological testified: lack of stock in a grave and observance qiblah, that is the address of the face of the dead towards Mecca. Considering a geographical position of Ob-Tomsk region, placement of a body of the dead with observance qiblah has to be the following: orientation of the dead by the head to southeast sector, thus the head has to be surely turned on the left side. At such pose the dead will be turned facing the Kaaba. Groups of burials with signs of Islamic funeral ceremonialism managed to be allocated in two necropolises. The first - the Astra-khantsevsky burial ground cemetery - is located on Ob and is dated the developed Middle Ages. The second - cemetery Toyanov Gorodok -is located on Tom and is dated the late Middle Ages. On the Astrakhantsevsky burial ground 44 burials with Muslim lines of a funeral ceremony that makes 44,8% from all studied burials are allocated. Thus every sixth is buried strictly on a canon: without stock and with observance qiblah. For a burial ground Toyanov Gorodok wasn't succeeded to carry out the full statistical analysis in connection with a condition of data base. Nevertheless, on a burial ground burials without stock are allocated and burial in which orientation is observed qiblah. Burial ground dating Toyanov Gorodok isn't beyond the late Middle Ages, and is defined by different researchers within the XV-XVI centuries, XV century, the XVI-XVII centuries, XVII century. Noted above line of a funeral ceremony speak about penetration at this time Islam around Tatars-eushtintsev. Existence of burials with signs of Muslim ceremonialism in the Astrakhantsevsky burial ground cemetery dated on the XIII-XV centuries and the Islamic world located, in fact, on the most remote periphery, in a taiga zone of Priobya that does this burial ground by a unique and basic monument in a context of further research of stages of Islamization of local population looks even more interesting.

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