Four Types Of Loyalty In Early Modern Central Asia

Author : Thomas Welsford
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004236759
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia written by Thomas Welsford and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 groupings helped to facilitate the Tūqāy-Tīmūrids’ acquisition of power, Welsford considers how such an instance of dynastic change might reflect the shifting loyalties, beliefs and preferences of an often overlooked wider subject population.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254196
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia (19th - Early 20th Century) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 'Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia addresses the need for a remedy to this state of affairs and thus offers new insights on a number of subjects relating to the social history of the region. It includes essays dealing with property relations, resource management, forms of local administration, the constitution of new social groups, the construction of identity categories, and an enquiry into the landscape of Islamic practices among the nomads.

Author : R.D. McChesney
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004459596
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Central Asian Shrines written by R.D. McChesney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Central Asian Shrines documents the social history of four long-standing Muslim shrines—at Samarqand, Balkh, Mazar-i Sharif, and Qandahar—and the evolution of their architecture as depicted in the written record and through a century and a quarter of photographs.

Author : Ms Anita Sengupta
Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9385714058
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insights and Commentaries: South and Central Asia written by Ms Anita Sengupta and published by KW Publishers Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume emerged out of a search for scholarship that has studied connectivity between South and Central Asia from a variety of perspectives. Geographically and culturally, the vision that India has had of the region she referred to as Central Asia is of a space extending across China westward upto the Aral Sea and including within it Balkh, Bukhara and Samarkand. The Indian fascination with the region extends to various levels as this is the region out of which invading tribes entered India, across whose Silk Routes trade flourished and also the region where Indian culture and religion spread. Keeping this in mind the volume begins with an overview of positions from which the region has been traditionally situated from the Indian perspective as also reflections on the current scenario in terms of the geopolitical transformations of recent times. It then moves on to examine the history of the political, cultural and economic connections between the two regions from comparative perspectives. Written by specialists from Uzbekistan the articles reflect on connections that had ancient roots and shared historical experiences. The first set of articles focus on the historical linkages between the two regions. Another set looks at similar developments in the region in terms of transformations in the socio-political life of the people as also in the economy. Encounters and the necessity of security cooperation between the two regions is the focus of a third set of articles. The second part of the volume looks into certain issues that are significant in both South and Central Asia. Written with Uzbek insight they reflect on Soviet and post-Soviet state policies on a range of issues from gender and maternity policies, ethnic policies and social stratification, information policy and policies related to global organizations that have comparable relevance in the Indian context.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373071
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sufism in Central Asia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume mark a new phase in the development of scholarship on Sufi traditions of Central Asia, expanding and deepening the source base, reconceptualizing basic frameworks for understanding Sufi history, and challenging received assumptions and narratives.

Author : Alexander Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030307
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Russian Conquest of Central Asia written by Alexander Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive diplomatic and military history of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, spanning the whole of the nineteenth century.

Author : James Pickett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501750259
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polymaths of Islam written by James Pickett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks. Pickett reveals a Persian-language cultural sphere that transcended state boundaries and integrated a spectacularly vibrant Eurasia that is invisible from published sources alone. Through a high cultural complex that he terms the "Persian cosmopolis" or "Persianate sphere," Pickett argues that an intersection of diverse disciplines shaped geographical trajectories across and between political states. In Polymaths of Islam he paints a comprehensive, colorful, and often contradictory portrait of mosque and state in the age of empire.

Author : Tracey A. Sowerby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000391868
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500–1630 written by Tracey A. Sowerby and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman court in Constantinople emerged as the axial centre of early modern diplomacy in Eurasia. Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500-1630 takes a unique approach to diplomatic relations by focusing on how diplomacy was conducted and diplomatic cultures forged at a single court: the Sublime Porte. It unites studies from the perspectives of European and non-European diplomats with analyses from the perspective of Ottoman officials involved in diplomatic practices. It focuses on a formative period for diplomatic procedure and Ottoman imperial culture by examining the introduction of resident embassies on the one hand, and on the other, changes in Ottoman policy and protocol that resulted from the territorial expansion and cultural transformations of the empire in the sixteenth century. The chapters in this volume approach the practices and processes of diplomacy at the Ottoman court with special attention to ceremonial protocol, diplomatic sociability, gift-giving, cultural exchange, information gathering, and the role of para-diplomatic actors.

Author : László Karoly
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284982
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Turkic Medical Treatise from Islamic Central Asia written by László Karoly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 studies. The author offers a critical edition of a seventeenth-century Central Asian medical treatise written by Sayyid Subḥān Qulï Muḥammad Bahādur khan in the Chagatay language.The edition includes a detailed introduction, a transcription of the original text for philological purposes, an annotated English translation, complete lexica of vocabulary, herbs and plants, minerals and chemicals, diseases and related terms, measures and units, personal names and Qur’ānic verses, and finally two manuscripts in facsimile.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004540997
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new research into various aspects of the rich cultural heritage of Central Asia (including Afghanistan). By mapping and exploring the interaction between political, ideological, literary and artistic production in Central Asia, the contributors offer a wide range of perspectives on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in different contexts and timeframes. Making use of different approaches – historical, literary, anthropological, or critical heritage studies, the contributors show how memory functions as a fundamental constituent of identity formation in both past and present, and how this has informed perceptions in and outside Central Asia today.