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Evading Reality
The Devices of ‘Abdalrauf Fitrat. Modern Central Asian Reformist
Inbunden, 2002
4076 kr
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Evading Reality treats the great ideological/political struggle embroiling literate Central Asia during the early 20th century. One of the region's leading cultural intellectuals, Abdalrauf Fitrat (1886-1938), in his Bukharan and Turkistan homeland, for over two decades fought against the …
Garden of the Eight Paradises
Bābur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530)
Av Stephen Dale
Inbunden, 2004
2781 kr
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This the first critical biography of Zahīr al-Dīn Muhammad Bābur, the founder of one of the great premodern Islamic empires, the Timurid-Mughul empire of India. It contains an original evaluation of his life and writings as well as fresh insights into both the nature of empire building and the …
Mongols, Turks, and Others
Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World
Av Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran
Inbunden, 2004
2905 kr
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The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the …
Uygur Patronage in Dunhuang
Regional Art Centres on the Northern Silk Road in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Inbunden, 2005
3452 kr
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This volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on Dunhuang art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful introduction to the hitherto little-known early history and art of the Uygurs, the author explains the social and political forces that shaped …
Divine Knowledge
Buddhist Mathematics According to the Anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination
Inbunden, 2008
5002 kr
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In an original and compelling examination of traditional mathematics, this comprehensive study of the anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination (published by A. Mostaert in 1969) takes on the fundamental problem of the post-enlightenment categorization of knowledge, in particular the …
Timurids in Transition
Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran
Inbunden, 2007
2668 kr
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How did the the descendants of Tamerlane, collectively known as the Timurids, make the transition from a nomadic empire to a sedentary polity based on the Perso-Islamic model , and what effect did the process of transition have on their Turko-Mongolian customs and identity? This volume seeks to …
Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road
Av Philippe Forêt, Andreas Kaplony
Inbunden, 2008
1881 kr
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This book covers new ground on the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road.Much of twentieth-century scholarship on the Silk Road examined the ancient archaeological objects and medieval historical records found …
Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources
Sallam's Quest for Alexander's Wall
Av E.J. van Donzel, Andrea Schmidt
Inbunden, 2010
2349 kr
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Alexander's alleged Wall against Gog and Magog, often connected with the enclosure of the apocalyptic people, was a widespread theme among Syriac Christians in Mesopotamia. In the ninth century Sallam the Interpreter dictated an account of his search for the barrier to the Arab geographer Ibn …
Dictionary of Sonom Gara's Erdeni-yin Sang
A Middle Mongol Version of the Tibetan Sa skya Legs bshad. Mongol - English - Tibetan
Av Györgi Kara
Inbunden, 2009
3237 kr
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This then is the first full dictionary of the earliest Mongol version of the thirteenth-century moral guide Sa skya Legs bshad that was compiled in Tibetan by the famous high priest and scholar Sa skya Pandita, and as such an indispensable tool for the study of Tibeto-Mongol translation techniques, …
Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
Inbunden, 2010
2261 kr
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In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater Armenians became subjects of the Mongol Empire, whereas the Cilician Armenians, …
Change in Democratic Mongolia
Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining
Inbunden, 2012
2527 kr
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Some 100 years ago, Mongolia gained independence from Qing China, and more than 20 years ago it removed itself from the collapsing Soviet Bloc. Since then, the country has been undergoing momentous social, economic and political changes. The contributions in Change in Democratic Mongolia: Social …
Šabdan Baatır Codex
Epic and the Writing of Northern Kirghiz History
Av Daniel Prior
Inbunden, 2012
3057 kr
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In The Šabdan Baatır Codex, Daniel Prior presents the first complete edition, translation, and interpretation of a unique manuscript of early twentieth-century Kirghiz poetry, which includes detailed accounts of nineteenth-century warfare. Dedicated to the chief Šabdan Baatır, the Codex occupies an …
Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia
The Tūqāy-Tīmūrid Takeover of Greater Mā Warā al-Nahr, 1598-1605
Inbunden, 2012
3236 kr
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At the turn of the seventeenth century, a new dynastic party established authority across Central Asia. In Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia, Thomas Welsford offers the first detailed account of how and why this happened. By examining some of the ways in which various social …
Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia
Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige
Inbunden, 2012
2244 kr
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In Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia Allen Frank examines the relationship of Tatars and Bashkirs with the city of Bukhara during the Russian Imperial era. For Muslims in Russia Bukhara’s prestige was manifested in genealogies, fashion, and in the elevated legal status of Bukharan communities in …
Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia (19th - Early 20th Century)
Inbunden, 2013
2498 kr
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Post-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history. Most of this scholarship rests on a set of assumptions about traditional institutions and social practices which merely reflect the bias of Soviet or even Tsarist-era historiography. …
Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life
Inbunden, 2013
3640 kr
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For nearly a millennium, a large part of Asia was ruled by Turkic or Mongol dynasties of nomadic origin. What was the attitude of these dynasties towards the many cities they controlled, some of which were of considerable size? To what extent did they live like their subjects? How did they evolve? …
Secret History of the Mongols, VOLUME 3 (Supplement)
A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century
Inbunden, 2013
2443 kr
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Volume Three of Igor de Rachewiltz’s annotated translation of the Secret History of the Mongols (Brill 2004, 2006), now regarded as the standard English version of this epic biography of Činggis Qan, is both a complement and a supplement to the first two volumes. On the one hand it revises and …
Art of Symbolic Resistance
Uyghur Identities and Uyghur-Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang
Inbunden, 2013
3203 kr
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Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China’s Uyghurs from the perspective of the majority Han (state or people). Conversely, The Art of Symbolic …
Turkic Medical Treatise from Islamic Central Asia
A Critical Edition of a Seventeenth-Century Chagatay Work by Subḥān Qulï Khan
Inbunden, 2014
3640 kr
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This is the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia. The richly annotated English translation makes the edition useful for readers without special knowledge on medical history and Turkic …
Nomads on Pilgrimage
Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940
Inbunden, 2015
3065 kr
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Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols’ pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of …
Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring
Inbunden, 2016
2271 kr
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Building on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang …
Managing Frontiers in Qing China
The Lifanyuan and Libu Revisited
Inbunden, 2016
2365 kr
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In Managing Frontiers in Qing China, historians and anthropologists explore China's imperial expansion in Inner Asia, focusing on early Qing empire-building in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and beyond – Central Asian perspectives and comparisons to Russia's Asian empire are included. Taking an …
How Mongolia Matters: War, Law, and Society
Inbunden, 2017
2177 kr
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The essays in this volume dispel some of the myths concerning the Mongolians and other Inner Asian peoples. This remarkable volume edited by and dedicated to Morris Rossabi challenges the depictions of these mostly nomadic pastoral groups as barbaric plunderers and killers while not denying the …
Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva
(19th - early 20th Centuries)
Av Paolo Sartori, Ulfat Abdurasulov
Inbunden, 2020
2902 kr
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This book aims to shed light on the juridical field of the Khanate of Khiva at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The ‘Khanate of Khiva’ is the term employed in Western historiography to denote the political formation that was put in place by the Qonghrats. The latter was a …
New Approaches to Ilkhanid History
Av Timothy May
Inbunden, 2020
2620 kr
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As the title implies, New Approaches to Ilkhanid History explores new methodologies and avenues of research for the Mongol state in the Middle East. Although the majority of the Ilkhanate was situated in Iran, this volume considers other regions within the state and moves away from focusing on the …
Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia
Av Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1996 kr
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Thirty years after the fall of Soviet power, we are beginning to understand that the experience of Muslims in the USSR continued patterns of adaptation and negotiation known from Muslim history in the lands that became the Soviet Union, and in other regions as well; we can also now understand that …
Turkmen Wars: Abdysetdar Kazy's Jangnama
Av Jeff Eden
Inbunden, 2026
1843 kr
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This brutal, vivid poem of war is the first Turkmen historical epic ever translated into English. Abdysetdar Kazy's poem recounts the momentous battles of 1858-1860 between the Turkmens and Iranians, in which the Turkmens triumphed. Along with the lively translation, Jeff Eden puts these pivotal …
