Modern Journal of Language Teaching Methods ISSN: 2251-6204 Vol. 8, Issue 11, November 2018 Page 370 M. Akmulla’s Traditions In Kasim Bikkulov’s Educational Poetry Liliya F. Nurieva 1 , Flera S. Sayfulina 1 , Tagir Sh. Gilazov 1 , Ercan Alkaya 2 1 Kazan Federal University 2 Firat University Abstract The article is devoted to the analysis of the poetic works by Kassim Bikkulov, the poet and the writer of the early twentieth century in the context of Tatar literature educational traditions. The literary heritage of the writer-educator makes about a dozen realistic stories; short stories, poems and scientific and educational records of informative nature, devoted to natural phenomena and included in the "books for reading". The research object of this article is educational poems aimed at the development of morality among young readers, their engagement to enlightenment, the acquiring of secular knowledge included in the collection of works reprinted for the first time in 100 years (2016). The aim of the work is the study and the introduction of the poems by Kasim Bikkulov to the scientific circulation, which are considered by the authors of this article in the framework of Tatar literature educational traditions, also in a comparative perspective with the works of the famous Tatar poet of the second half of the XIXth century - Miftahutdin Akmullah. We used analytical, comparative, cultural and historical research methods, as well as a hermeneutic approach to the analysis of the works. The novelty and the relevance of the work is explained by a poor study of the writer-educator poetic heritage, a clergyman, whose works were undeservedly forgotten during the years of the totalitarian regime. In the framework of educational poetry, dozens of poems by Kasim Bikkulov were analyzed, they performed the comparative analysis of the works by the author under study with M. Akmulla's poetry. M. Akmulla is the enlightener. The study makes it possible to draw the conclusions that the poetry of the analyzed poet K. Bikkulov, in contrast to his prosaic heritage, which is more considered in terms of critical realism, relates to educational literature. Keywords: Tatar literature; K. Bikkulov; literary process; literary heritage; enlightenment. 1. Introduction Tatar literature with a thousand-year history of development has some peculiarities at each stage of development. Modern literary studies is aimed to study different stages of national literature from new ideological and aesthetic views. Recently, they actualized the study of the national literature of different periods from different research aspects [1: 3256-3262], [2: 228-231], [3: 2576-2581]. The educational ideas and ideals raised by the Tatar intelligentsia of the second half of the nineteenth century occupy the main place in the literature of the last quarter of the analyzed century. During this period, there was the process of large-scale reconstruction in Tatar society: they created the conditions for the publication of books, newspapers and magazines, the reform in the education system was carried out, and new method schools and madrasas were opened. A new pleiad of writers enters the literary arena aspiring to raise the well-being and the culture of the people to a new development level through education and upbringing.. A little bit later "The beginning of the 20th century is being defined as a period of emerging Tartar scientific thought, theory of literature, serious discourse about the literary terminology and concepts, as well as the time of achievements in this area" [4: 508-517], which was prepared by the literature of the period of enlightenment. The problem of concern about the fate of people, the upbringing the younger generation, the talk about the value of education constitute the central line of educational trend goal and objectives. The creative Downloaded from mjltm.org at 14:01 +0330 on Wednesday March 3rd 2021 [ DOI: 10.26655/mjltm.2018.11.1 ]