Abstract. Tower mausoleums built during the reign of the Turkish dynasties such as the Ghaznavians, Seljukians and Ilkhanians found on the vast expanse of Iran and the neighboring territories - in the Caucasus, in Afghanistan. It revealed that the architectural monuments of this type were built in the Eurasian steppes, in Kazakhstan long before Islam. It was found that the appearance of the tower mausoleums in Iran, one of the manifestations of Turkish-Iranian cultural symbiosis. It turned out that during the construction of the first monuments of this type according to the time of the first Turkic tribes in Iran. In this article, based on the study of architectural monuments, namely, tower mausoleums built on the territory of Iran and Kazakhstan are characterized by relations of Islamic culture and the nomadic civilization in the X-XIV centuries. Attention is drawn to the spiritual and cultural consequences of the conquest of the Turks of Iran. For example, the tower mausoleums built in the Eurasian steppes, traced the cultural heritage of Central Asian nomads in Iran. It revealed that these architectural monuments has a direct relationship with the traditional dwelling of Turkic yurt, which is in turn associated with the outlook of nomads.Yurt is a monument of material culture of the Turkish-Mongol ethnic groups cultivated space nomads, a microcosm of the world, where the family lives, where the nomad is born, grows, creates a family, there is a transfer of values goes to the other world. The results obtained allowed to cover the value of the traditional world of the nomads in the development of this component of the material culture of Iranians.
Zhenis et al. (2026) studied this question.