Memory and commemoration across Central Asia : texts, traditions and practices, 10th-21st centuries / edited by Elena Paskaleva, Gabrielle van den Berg

Klappentext: This book 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 politic...

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Superior document:Leiden studies in Islam and society volume 17
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Leiden studies in Islam and society volume 17
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Classification:15.74 - Russland
15.75 - Asien: Allgemeines
15.07 - Kulturgeschichte
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Physical Description:XVII, 381 Seiten; Illustrationen; 24 cm
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents:
  • Inhaltsverzeichnis: Perceptions of history in Persian chronicles of the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries in Central Asia / Charles Melville
  • Remembering Bahāʼ al-Dīn Naqshband in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Bukhara / Florian Schwarz
  • Turk amongst Tajiks: The Turkic Shāhnāma translation located in Tajikistan and manuscript production during the Abuʼl-Khayrid annexation of Khurasan (1588-1598) / Jaimee Comstock-Skipp
  • The Epic Hero Manas as the archetype of autonomy : nostalgia and futurities in Kyrgyz spiritual and ethno-nationalist discourses / Nienke van der Heide
  • Literary souvenirs from Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAynī and Sotim Uluġzoda in the Leiden University library : a closer look at ʿAynī's Jodgorī (1935) and Uluġzoda's Saëhati Buxoro Bo Hamrohii Aĭnī (1950) / Gabrielle van den Berg
  • Editing Sufism : contemporary negotiations on memory and religious practice in Afghanistan / Annika Schmeding
  • Ethnographic writing on Bukharan Jews : from lost tribes to community scholarship / Mai͏̈ra Kaye
  • Dynamics of perpetuity : "traditional" horse games in Kyrgyzstan / Simone de Boer
  • Genealogy and family ties of Mawarannahr Sayyids : A study based on funerary epigraphy / Babur Aminov
  • Ḥaẓīra memorial complexes in Mawarannahr : evolution and architectural features / Mavlyuda A. Abbasova-Yusupova
  • Commemorating the Russian conquest of Central Asia / Alexander Morrison
  • Remembering the Alisher Navoi Jubilee and the archaeological excavations in Samarqand in the summer of 1941 / Elena Paskaleva
  • Soviet legitimization of Islamic architecture in Old Khiva as reflected in the diaries of ʿAbdullāh Bāltaev (1880-1966) / Bakhtiyar M. Babadjanov
  • "Memory traces :" Buston Buva Mazār in the Ferghana region of Uzbekistan, 1980s-2010s / Věra Exnerová.