How has the Turkic funeral rite changed with the adoption of Islam?

In the XIII - the beginning In the 14th century, the Islamic religious system began to actively spread in the territory of the Golden Horde, which quickly became dominant. The change of religion could not but affect the funeral and memorial traditions of the Turkic tribes. Nevertheless, this process was slow.

The canons of the Muslim religion exclude the presence of any kind of inventory and imply the correct orientation of the deceased's body, but despite the widespread adoption of Islam, at the initial stages the norms of the funeral rite could not immediately replace the centuries-old Turkic funeral traditions. In the Golden Horde period, there was a certain dualism: some burial groups correspond to the Muslim rite, while others correspond to traditional burial methods.

But even among Muslim burials, deviations from canonical norms were encountered for some time. The inventory from the funeral rite disappeared gradually, primarily from the commoners. A large proportion of burials with deviations from the Muslim tradition are located near the settlements of the Jochi Ulus, whose population was multi-confessional. Nevertheless, canonical burials were also present at the earliest stages of the Islamization of the Turkic peoples.

The funeral traditions of the nomads of the Middle Ages, after the establishment of Muslim religious dogmas, retained remnants of previous beliefs for a long time. Based on the synthesis of old and new beliefs, a new, peculiar religious philosophy was obtained, different from Orthodox Islam.