Judicial and legislative activity of Abay Kananbayugly”

   At a conference with the chairmen of district judges and judicial officers in the city of Nur-Sultan, on February 22, 2020, the dean of the Faculty of Law, Doctor of Law, Professor Zhamaladen Ibragimov made a presentation.

At the conference, little-known facts were voiced about Abai Kunanbayev.

“On judicial and legislative activity of Abay” was reported by Zhamaladen Ibragimov, doctor of legal sciences, associate professor, at a conference held at the city court of Nur Sultan on February 22, 2020.

Ibragimov Zh.I. noted the words of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan K. Tokayev that: “We are a people who take an example from history and render honor to great ancestors. Our main goal is the broad propaganda of Abay's worldview, the introduction of youth to his spiritual heritage. Abay’s homeland should become a major center worthy to meet tourists from all over the world. Local authorities should pay special attention to this. ”

Ibragimov Zh.I. emphasized that Abay often attended trials. Learned to sort out disputes with Kunanbai's father. And he also noted that in Moscow a book was published by the Rector of the ENU named after L.N. Gumilyov E.B.Sydykov on "ZhZL". Analyzing all sources, it can be assumed that Abay was known not only as a biy, but also as a legislator of the steppe.

1885 in the town of Karamola, one of the first legal documents in the Kazakh language was adopted. It was a set of customs and laws of the steppe; it was adopted at an extraordinary congress of more than one hundred bies of a number of counties of the Semipaltinsk region. There is evidence that it was Abay who drafted this document presented at the congress, and that he announced the prepared normative act, consisting of 93 articles, which was unanimously approved by those present.