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Author | : R.D. McChesney |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9004459596 |
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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.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2018-08-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004373071 |
Download Sufism in Central Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2023-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004540997 |
Download Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Ron Sela |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2022-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004527095 |
Download Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume features 11 essays that explore the issue of religious authority among Muslim communities of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet worlds of Russia, the North Caucasus, the Volga-Ural region, and Central Asia.
Author | : R.D. McChesney |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2024-07-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0755645863 |
Download An Afghan Prince in Victorian England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1894 Great Britain invited 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit. Then at the height of its imperial might, Britain sought to strengthen ties with the strategically important Afghanistan, which shared a long frontier, not yet a border, with British India. The amir's aim for the visit was to secure permission for an Afghan legation (embassy) in London while the British, unaware of this goal, hoped to overawe the amir with displays of military and industrial might as well as performances to show the strength and unity of British civil society. The amir, citing illness, ultimately declined the invitation but, in a calculated snub, sent his second son, Prince Nasr Allah Khan, in his place. This book narrates the events of the prince's mission in a number of revealing ways. Using both British and Afghan sources, including the journal of a senior member of the Afghan contingent, McChesney places the visit in its international and historical context and analyzes the internal dynamics of the prince's delegation, the seventy members of whom represented Afghanistan but included two Englishmen and two Englishwomen. A further twenty members, representing the Government of (British) India, were as multi-ethnic and multilingual as the members of the Afghan delegation. This bilateral and complex mission left India in April 1895 and remained together for the next six months. From the beginning it was riven by incidents of misogyny, racism, and class conflict that affected its ability to perform its diplomatic functions. The reader gains insights into the goals and tactics of two asymmetrical yet competing powers as well as a rare look at the human element in this cross-cultural diplomatic encounter.
Author | : Georg Leube |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004541527 |
Download Relational Iconography, Representational Culture at the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu Courts (853/1449 CE to 907/1501 CE) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Relational Iconography Georg Leube engages with the courtly culture of the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu dynasties (15th century C.E.) as a key episode in Persianate and Islamicate cultural history.
Author | : Alexandre Papas |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2020-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 311220882X |
Download Central Asian Pilgrims. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.
Author | : Christoph Baumer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1568 |
Release | : 2018-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1838608680 |
Download History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)
Author | : Allen J. Frank |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012-09-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900423490X |
Download Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 Russia. The historical relationship of Russia’s Muslim communities with Bukhara was founded above all on Bukhara’s reputation as a holy city of Islam, an abode of great Sufis, and a center of Islamic scholarship. The emergence of Islamic reformism critiquing Bukhara’s sacred status, led by Tatar scholars who were trained in Bukhara, created a number of paradoxes. The symbol of Bukhara became an important feature in theological and political debates among Russia’s Muslims.
Author | : Baij Nath Puri |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120803725 |
Download Buddhism in Central Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Buddhism in Central Asia is a saga of peaceful pursuit by Buddhist scholars from Kashmir and Kabul to propagate the message of the Buddha. This vast region between the Tien-Shan and the Kunlun ranges was the centre of activities of these Buddhist savants. Here people of different races and professions, speaking many languages, were finally blended into a cosmopolitan culture. This created an intellectual climate of high order. In this context, the famous silk trade route was helpful in adding to the material prosperity of the people in this region. The present study, therefore, is not one of Buddhism in isolation. It equally provides an account of the political forces confronting each other during the course of history of this region for well over a thousand years. For centuries the drifting desert sand of Central Asia enveloped this civilization and the religion connected with it. The late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century explorers and archaeologists successfully uncovered it at different centres along the old Silk Route. This has been helpful for a comprehensive study of Buddhism with its literature and art. The finds of hundreds of inscriptions have added to the cultural dimensions of the study.