Islamic Central Asia

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A valuable resource for the study of Central Asian history

Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central Asia. These documents—many newly translated and most not readily available for study—cover the period from the 7th-century Arab conquests to the 19th-century Russian colonial era and provide new insights into the history and significance of the region.

Note on Translation and Transliteration
Map
Introduction
Part 1. Central Asia in the Early Islamic Period, Seventh–Tenth Centuries
Introduction
A. Central Asia and the Arab Conquests
B. Central Asia under the Samanids
C. The Age of Learning
Part 2. Encounter with the Turks
Introduction
A. Turkic Peoples of the Steppe
B. Qarakhanids: The First Turkic Muslim State in Central Asia
C. Central Asia in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Part 3. The Mongol Empire
Introduction
A. Temujin and the Rise of the Mongol Empire
Part 4. Timur and the Timurids
Introduction
A. Timur's Rise and Rule
B. Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century
Part 5. Central Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Introduction
A. The Shïbanids and Central Asian Society in the Sixteenth Century
B. Central Asia in the Seventeenth Century
Part 6. Central Asia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Introduction
A. The Age of Transition
B. The Uzbek Tribal Dynasties
C. The "Great Game" to Russian Rule
Glossary
Index

Sujets

• Middle Eastern Studies
• Middle Est
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• Literature
• History of the Middle East
• General officer
• Eastern Europe
• Russian
• Middle East
• History of Asia
• Central Asia
• General
• Eurasia
• Islam
• Asia

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 23 décembre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253013590
• Langue: English

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Islamic Central Asia
Islamic Central Asia
An Anthology of Historical Sources
Edited by Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela
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Islamic Central Asia : an anthology of historical sources / edited by Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-35385-6 (cloth : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-253-22140-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Asia, Central-History-Sources. 2. Asia, Central-Civilization-Islamic influences-Sources. 3. Islam-Asia, Central-History-Sources. I. Levi, Scott Cameron. II. Sela, Ron.
DS327.3.I75 2009
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Map
I NTRODUCTION
Part 1 Central Asia in the Early Islamic Period, Seventh to Tenth Centuries
I NTRODUCTION
A. Central Asia and the Arab Conquests
1. Baladhuri: The Arab Conquests of Central Asia
2. Tabari: Another Look at the Arab Conquests
B. Central Asia under the Samanids
3. Narshakhi: The Rise of the House of Saman
4. Hudud al- Alam: The Frontiers of the Muslim World in the Tenth Century
C. The Age of Learning
5. Ibn Sina: Biographical Notes
6. al-Biruni: On the Importance of the Sciences
Part 2 Encounter with the Turks
I NTRODUCTION
A. Turkic Peoples of the Steppe
7. The Orkhon Inscriptions: The Early Turks
8. al-Jahiz: The Peculiarities of the Turks
9. Gardizi: The Turks in Early Muslim Traditions
10. Ibn Fadlan: Journey to the Northern Lands
B. Qarakhanids: The First Turkic Muslim State in Central Asia
11. al-Kashghari: On the Linguistic Distribution of the Turks
12. Jamal Qarshi: The Conversion to Islam of Satuq Bughra Khan
13. Yusuf Hass Hajib: Advice to the Qarakhanid Rulers
C. Central Asia in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
14. al- Utbi: The Alliance of the Ghaznavids and Qarakhanids
15. Ibn Khallikan: Biography of the Vizier Nizam al-Mulk
16. Nizam al-Mulk: A Mirror for Princes
17. Qabus-nama: A Different Mirror for Princes
18. Liao Shih: Nomadic Khitan State and Society
Part 3 The Mongol Empire
I NTRODUCTION
A. Temujin and the Rise of the Mongol Empire
19. Secret History of the Mongols: Temujin s Origins
20. Hayton: Temujin and the Rise of the Mongol Empire
21. Nasawi: The Khorezmshah s Downfall
22. Chang Chun: A Daoist Monk in Central Asia
23. Juzjani: Chaghatay the Accursed!
B. Islamic Central Asia under Mongol Rule
24. Rashid al-Din: In Defense of Chaghatay Khan
25. Juvaini: The Il-Khan H leg Captures the Castles of the Heretics
26. Mirza Haydar Dughlat: The Conversion to Islam of Tughluq Timur Khan
27. Ibn Battuta: Travels in Western Central Asia in the Fourteenth Century
Part 4 Timur and the Timurids
I NTRODUCTION
A. Timur s Rise and Rule
28. Ibn Arabshah: Timur and His Steppe Campaigns
29. Ibn Khaldun: Personal Narrative of a Meeting with Timur
30. Ruy Gonz lez de Clavijo: A Spanish Embassy to Timur s Capital
B. Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century
31. Khwandamir: Timur s Heirs: Shahrukh and Ulughbeg
32. Nava i: A Comparison between Persian and Turkic
33. Khoja Ahrar: Letters
34. Five Readings on Sufi Orders in Central Asia: Competition, Practice, Politics
Part 5 Central Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
I NTRODUCTION
A. The Sh banids and Central Asian Society in the Sixteenth Century
35. Zubdat al-athar: The Beginnings of the Sh banid State
36. Babur: Description of the Farghana Valley and Babur s Ejection from Samarqand
37. Anthony Jenkinson: An English Merchant in Central Asia
38. Juybari Archives: A Sixteenth-Century Bukharan Deed of Sale
39. Akbar, Emperor of India: A Letter to Abdallah Khan Uzbek, King of Turan
B. Central Asia in the Seventeenth Century
40. Abu l-Ghazi: Reasons for Writing the Genealogies of the Turks and Turkmens
41. Ivan Khokhlov: A Russian Envoy to Central Asia
42. Sayyeda-ye Nasafi: A Visit to the Shrine of Baha al-Din Naqshband
43. Churas: Erke Bek, a Turkestani in the Service of the Oirats
Part 6 Central Asia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
I NTRODUCTION
A. The Age of Transition
44. Timur s Legendary Biographies
45. Thompson and Hogg: British Trade East of the Caspian
46. Abd al-Karim Kashmiri: Nadir Shah s Campaign in Central Asia
B. The Uzbek Tribal Dynasties
47. Tuhfat al-khani: The Inauguration of Muhammad Rahim Khan Mangh t
48. Majma al-arqam: An Administrative Manual from Bukhara
49. A Collection of Royal Decrees from Khiva
50. Muntakhab al-tavarikh: On the Relations between Qoqand and Kashghar
C. The Great Game to Russian Rule
51. Alexander Burnes: The Importance of Bukhara in Great Game Politics
52. Mohan Lal: A Journey among the Turkmens
53. Levshin: Observations on the Qazaqs
54. Nikolai Ignatiev: Russia s Agenda in Central Asia
55. Bayani: The Russian Conquest of Khiva and the Massacre of the Yomut Turkmens
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
This volume was produced with funds provided by the Ohio State University Department of History and College of Arts and Humanities, and the Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian Studies and Islamic Studies Program. We are especially grateful for the original contributions to this anthology made by Devin DeWeese, Paul Losensky, and David Knighting, as well as to the generous counsel by our colleagues Akram Khabibullaev, Mika Natif, and Christopher Atwood, and the anonymous reviewers of this volume. Scott Tyler at Indiana University Graphic Services prepared the detailed map accompanying this volume. We are grateful for Yuri Bregel s permission to base our map on maps that he had prepared and published in his Historical Central Asia Maps (Papers on Inner Asia Special Supplement no. 1, Bloomington, 2000). We thank our editors at Indiana University Press, Rebecca Tolen and Laura MacLeod, for their support and dedication to this project. Lee Keeling provided valuable technical assistance in preparing several parts of the manuscript. Scott Levi would also like to thank Ali Shahhosseini for his friendship and valuable guidance in preparing for publication the original translation of the excerpt from Muhammad Hakim Khan s Muntakhab al-tavarikh.
Chapter 1: F. C. Murgotten, tr., The origins of the Islamic state, being a translation from the Arabic accompanied with annotations geographic and historic notes of the Kit b Fut h al-Buld n of al-Im m Abu-l Abb s, Ahmad ibn-J bir al-Bal dhuri , vol. 2 (New York: Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences, 1916).
Chapter 2: (1) Reprinted by permission from The History of al-Tabari (Ta rikh al-rusul wa l-muluk) , vol. XXIII, The Zenith of the Marwanid House: The Last Years of Abd al-Malik and the Caliphate of al-Walid, A.D. 700-715/A.H. 81-96 , translated and annotated by Martin Hinds, the State University of New York Press 1990, State University of New York. All rights reserved.
(2) Reprinted by permission from The History of al-Tabari (Ta rikh al-rusul wa l-muluk) , vol. XXV, The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hisham, A.D. 724-738/A.H. 105-120 , translated and annotated by Khalid Yahya Blankinship, the State University of New York Press 1989, State University of New York. All rights reserved.
Chapter 3: Richard N. Frye, The History of Bukhara: Translated from a Persian Abridgement of the Arabic Original by Narshakh (Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1954).
Chapter 4: Indiana University Press, which has published this book, acknowledges the material derived from Hud d al- lam, The Regions of the World : A Persian Geography , as edited by C. E. Bosworth (London, 1970). This work is published by the Trustees of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, who have granted their consent to reproduce it here.
Chapter 5: Reprinted by permission from The Life of Ibn Sina: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation , by William E. Gohlman, the State University of New York Press 1974, State University of New York. All rights reserved.
Chapter 6: Jamil Ali, tr., The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances between Cities: A Translation from the Arabic of al-B r n s Kit b Tahd d Nih y t al-Am kin Litash h Mas f t al-Mas kin , Beirut: The American University of Beirut, 1967. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
Chapter 7: Talat Tekin, A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic , Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 69 (Bloomington/The Hague: Mouton, 1968). Reproduced by permission of the Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies.
Chapter 8: The life and works of Jahiz; translations of selected texts, by Charles Pellat , translated from the French [Ms.] by D. M. Hawke (Routledge Kegan Paul 1969). Reproduced by permission of Taylor Francis Books UK.
Chapter 9