Abstract:
The article is devoted to the spread of Islam among the Kazakhs in XIV – XVII centuries. It is based on the archaeological and ethnological data, narrative manuscripts, archive documents, evidences of contemporaries. The process of the spread of Islam in Kazakhstan was complicated. In XIVc. Islam was success among the Kazakh nobility. The Kazakh noblemen (for example, Berke khan) built mosques and medreses, invited educated theologists. In XVIII c. the positions of Islam among the Kazakhs became strong because of the tsarist administration’ support of Islam in Russian empire’s colonies.
