Author: Eren Tasar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9004471170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spanning the history of Islamic Central Asia from medieval to modern times, this volume features groundbreaking studies of the region’s religious life and culture by leading scholars in the field.
Author: Jo-Ann Gross
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780822311904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Central Asia is distinctive in its role as a frontier region in which a unique diversity of cultural, religious, and political traditions exist. This collection of essays by expert scholars in a range of disciplines focuses on the formation of ethnic, religious, and national identities in Muslim societies of Central Asia, thus furthering our general understanding of the history and culture of this significant region. This study includes several geopolitical regions--Chinese Central Asia, Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Transoxiana and Khurasan--and covers historical periods from the fifteenth century to the present. Drawing on scholarship in anthropology, religion, history, literature, and language studies, Muslims in Central Asia argues for an interdisciplinary, inter-regional dialog in the development of new approaches to understanding the Muslim societies in Central Asia. The authors creatively examine the social construction of identities as expressed through literature, Islamic discourse, historical texts, ethnic labels, and genealogies, and explore how such identities are formed, changed, and adopted through time. Contributors. Hamid Algar, Muriel Atkin, Walter Feldman, Dru C. Gladney, Edward J. Lazzerini, Beatrice Forbes Manz, Christopher Murphy, Oliver Roy, Isenbike Togan
Author: Christoph Baumer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-05-30
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1838609407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and Western Europe.
Author: L. R. Polonskai︠a︡
Publisher: Ithaca Press (GB)
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The policy of Islam and Muslims under the Communist regime, the recent renaissance of Islamic culture in the region, and the influence of Islam in politics during the break-up of the USSR are also discussed. The book concludes with a look to the future, evaluating the position of the emergent Muslim states in Central Asia, and their relationship to the new Russian state.
Author: James Thrower
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book by the late Dr. James Thrower is the first general survey of the religious history of Central Asia, both Muslim and non-Muslim. It covers the history of religion in Central or Inner Asia from pre-history to the aftermath of the fall of communism.
Author: M.S.Asimov
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13: 9788120815964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Kemper
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 3112401921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No detailed description available for "Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia".