Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia

Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-31027-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Paskaleva, Elena

Berg, Gabrielle van den

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Saëhati 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 Exnerová

Glossary of Terms

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.