Traditional medicine of nomadic peoples which has many century experiences flowering of culture is one of the most important topics in the study of «Seven Faces of the Great Steppe», as well as in the ethnic culture system of the peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. In the middle Ages, on the territory of Kazakhstan, for objective reasons, traditional medicine prevailed. If we replenish traditional medicine with fresh ethnographic materials, it will be very important for science and for everyday life. Therefore, knowledge of the history of medieval steppe medicine is of paramount scientific and practical importance.

The proposed project aims to study the history and culture of the healing of nomadic peoples from the written heritage of the middle Ages. One of the many legacies is the medical treatise «Dastūr al-„ilādj» («The tradition of treatment»), written in the XVI century (more precisely in 933 / 1526-27) by the personal physician of the nomadic khan Kuchkūnjī (1432-1530) Sultān „Alī al-Khurasānī (d. after 1533). The treatise contains a large number of treatment methods and medicines, often used in folk medicine of the steppe peoples of Central Asia. As a result of the implementation of this project, medical manuscripts in domestic and foreign funds, the text of the treatise «Dastūr al-„ilādj» in Chagatai and Persian languages will be studied, and the treatise will be translated into Kazakh.

The scientific novelty of the research is determined, first of all, by the conceptual approach to the study of the history and development of folk medicine based on written sources, the continuity of its cult and religious aspects of treatment methods, the reciprocity of traditions and culture of healing used by the people of the Great Steppe in the middle ages. We hope that the studies published within the framework of the project will contribute to a certain extent to expanding the horizons of such domestic sciences as the history of medicine, ethnography, source study, medical lexicography, ethnography and will deepen knowledge about the sources of information about traditional medicine.

The results will be used in methodological developments for conducting seminars for teachers and students in the subject «History of Medicine», in the field of source study in the special course «Linguistic source study», in the process of teaching the Chagatai language in universities, as well as in scientific and exhibition works of museums.