Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia
Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries
Published on 31. May 2023
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Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-90-04-31027-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
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Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
553 gr
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978-90-04-31027-8 (9789004310278)
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Elena Paskaleva, Ph.D. (2010) is Assistant Professor of Critical Heritage Studies at Leiden University. Her courses deal with the politics of commemoration across the Middle East and Asia. She has published on the history and socio-political importance of Timurid architecture.
Gabrielle van den Berg, Ph.D (1997) is Professor of Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia at Leiden University. She has published on classical Persian and Tajik literature and has worked extensively on the oral traditions of Badakhshan, Tajikistan.
Gabrielle van den Berg, Ph.D (1997) is Professor of Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia at Leiden University. She has published on classical Persian and Tajik literature and has worked extensively on the oral traditions of Badakhshan, Tajikistan.
Content
List of Figures
Transliteration
Introduction
?Elena Paskaleva, with Gabrielle van den Berg
Part 1 Historiographic Narratives
1 Perceptions of History in Persian Chronicles of the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries in Central Asia
?Charles Melville
2 Remembering Baha? al-Din Naqshband in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bukhara
?Florian Schwarz
Part 2 Epic Heroes and Literary Legacies
3 Turk amongst Tajiks
The Turkic Shahnama Translation Located in Tajikistan and Manuscript Production during the Abu?l-Khayrid Annexation of Khurasan (1588-1598)
?Jaimee Comstock-Skipp
4 The Epic Hero Manas as the Archetype of Autonomy-Nostalgia and Futurities in Kyrgyz Spiritual and Ethno-Nationalist Discourses
?Nienke van der Heide
5 Literary Souvenirs from ?adr al-Din ?Ayni and Sotim Ulugzoda in the Leiden University Library
A Closer Look at ?Ayni's Jodgori (1935) and Ulugzoda's Saehati Buxoro Bo Hamrohii Aini (1950)
?Gabrielle van den Berg
Part 3 Memory, Religious and Social Practices
6 Editing Sufism: Contemporary Negotiations on Memory and Religious Practice in Afghanistan
?Annika Schmeding
7 Ethnographic Writing on Bukharan Jews: From Lost Tribes to Community Scholarship
?Maira Kaye
8 Dynamics of Perpetuity: "Traditional" Horse Games in Kyrgyzstan
?Simone de Boer
Part 4 Shrines and Monuments as Sites of Memory
9 Genealogy and Family Ties of Mawarannahr Sayyids: A Study Based on Funerary Epigraphy
?Babur Aminov
10 ?a?ira Memorial Complexes in Mawarannahr: Evolution and Architectural Features
?Mavlyuda Yusupova
11 Commemorating the Russian Conquest of Central Asia
?Alexander Morrison
12 Remembering the Alisher Navoi Jubilee and the Archaeological Excavations in Samarqand in the Summer of 1941
?Elena Paskaleva
13 Soviet Legitimization of Islamic Architecture in Old Khiva as Reflected in the Diaries of ?Abdullah Baltaev (1880-1966)
?Bakhtiyar Babadjanov
14 "Memory Traces:" Buston Buva Mazar in the Ferghana Region of Uzbekistan, 1980s-2010s
?Vera Exnerova
Glossary of Terms
Index
Transliteration
Introduction
?Elena Paskaleva, with Gabrielle van den Berg
Part 1 Historiographic Narratives
1 Perceptions of History in Persian Chronicles of the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries in Central Asia
?Charles Melville
2 Remembering Baha? al-Din Naqshband in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bukhara
?Florian Schwarz
Part 2 Epic Heroes and Literary Legacies
3 Turk amongst Tajiks
The Turkic Shahnama Translation Located in Tajikistan and Manuscript Production during the Abu?l-Khayrid Annexation of Khurasan (1588-1598)
?Jaimee Comstock-Skipp
4 The Epic Hero Manas as the Archetype of Autonomy-Nostalgia and Futurities in Kyrgyz Spiritual and Ethno-Nationalist Discourses
?Nienke van der Heide
5 Literary Souvenirs from ?adr al-Din ?Ayni and Sotim Ulugzoda in the Leiden University Library
A Closer Look at ?Ayni's Jodgori (1935) and Ulugzoda's Saehati Buxoro Bo Hamrohii Aini (1950)
?Gabrielle van den Berg
Part 3 Memory, Religious and Social Practices
6 Editing Sufism: Contemporary Negotiations on Memory and Religious Practice in Afghanistan
?Annika Schmeding
7 Ethnographic Writing on Bukharan Jews: From Lost Tribes to Community Scholarship
?Maira Kaye
8 Dynamics of Perpetuity: "Traditional" Horse Games in Kyrgyzstan
?Simone de Boer
Part 4 Shrines and Monuments as Sites of Memory
9 Genealogy and Family Ties of Mawarannahr Sayyids: A Study Based on Funerary Epigraphy
?Babur Aminov
10 ?a?ira Memorial Complexes in Mawarannahr: Evolution and Architectural Features
?Mavlyuda Yusupova
11 Commemorating the Russian Conquest of Central Asia
?Alexander Morrison
12 Remembering the Alisher Navoi Jubilee and the Archaeological Excavations in Samarqand in the Summer of 1941
?Elena Paskaleva
13 Soviet Legitimization of Islamic Architecture in Old Khiva as Reflected in the Diaries of ?Abdullah Baltaev (1880-1966)
?Bakhtiyar Babadjanov
14 "Memory Traces:" Buston Buva Mazar in the Ferghana Region of Uzbekistan, 1980s-2010s
?Vera Exnerova
Glossary of Terms
Index