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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on Translation and Transliteration | |
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| Map | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Central Asia in the Early Islamic Period, Seventh to Tenth Centuries | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Central Asia and the Arab Conquests | |
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| Baladhuri: The Arab Conquests of Central Asia | |
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| Tabari: Another Look at the Arab Conquests | |
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| Central Asia under the Samanids | |
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| Narshakhi: The Rise of the House of Saman | |
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| Hudud al-'Alam: The Frontiers of the Muslim World in the Tenth Century | |
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| The Age of Learning | |
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| Ibn Sina: Biographical Notes | |
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| al-Biruni: On the Importance of the Sciences | |
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| Encounter with the Turks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Turkic Peoples of the Steppe | |
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| The Orkhon Inscriptions: The Early Turks | |
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| al-Jahiz: The Peculiarities of the Turks | |
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| Gardizi: The Turks in Early Muslim Traditions | |
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| Ibn Fadlan: Journey to the Northern Lands | |
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| Qarakhanids: The First Turkic Muslim State in Central Asia | |
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| al-Kashghari: On the Linguistic Distribution of the Turks | |
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| Jamal Qarshi: The Conversion to Islam of Satuq Bughra Khan | |
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| Yusuf Hass Hajib: Advice to the Qarakhanid Rulers | |
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| Central Asia in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries | |
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| al-'Utbi: The Alliance of the Ghaznavids and Qarakhanids | |
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| Ibn Khallikan: Biography of the Vizier Nizam al-Mulk | |
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| Nizam al-Mulk: A Mirror for Princes | |
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| Qabus-nama: A Different Mirror for Princes | |
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| Liao Shih: Nomadic Khitan State and Society | |
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| The Mongol Empire | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Temujin and the Rise of the Mongol Empire | |
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| Secret History of the Mongols: Temujin's Origins | |
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| Hayton: Temujin and the Rise of the Mongol Empire | |
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| Nasawi: The Khorezmshah's Downfall | |
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| Chang Chun: A Daoist Monk in Central Asia | |
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| Juzjani: Chaghatay the Accursed! | |
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| Islamic Central Asia under Mongol Rule | |
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| Rashid al-Din: In Defense of Chaghatay Khan | |
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| Juvaini: The Il-Khan H�leg� Captures the Castles of the Heretics | |
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| Mirza Haydar Dughlat: The Conversion to Islam of Tughluq Timur Khan | |
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| Ibn Battuta: Travels in Western Central Asia in the Fourteenth Century | |
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| Timur and the Timurids | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Timur's Rise and Rule | |
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| Ibn 'Arabshah: Timur and His Steppe Campaigns | |
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| Ibn Khaldun: Personal Narrative of a Meeting with Timur | |
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| Ruy Gonz�lez de Clavijo: A Spanish Embassy to Timur's Capital | |
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| Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| Khwandamir: Timur's Heirs: Shahrukh and Ulughbeg | |
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| Nava'i: A Comparison between Persian and Turkic | |
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| Khoja Ahrar: Letters | |
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| Five Readings on Sufi Orders in Central Asia: Competition, Practice, Politics | |
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| Central Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Sh�banids and Central Asian Society in the Sixteenth Century | |
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| Zubdat al-athar: The Beginnings of the Sh�banid State | |
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| Babur: Description of the Farghana Valley and Babur's Ejection from Samarqand | |
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| Anthony Jenkinson: An English Merchant in Central Asia | |
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| Juybari Archives: A Sixteenth-Century Bukharan Deed of Sale | |
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| Akbar, Emperor of India: A Letter to 'Abdallah Khan Uzbek, King of Turan | |
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| Central Asia in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Abu'l-Ghazi: Reasons for Writing the Genealogies of the Turks and Turkmens | |
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| Ivan Khokhlov: A Russian Envoy to Central Asia | |
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| Sayyeda-ye Nasafi: A Visit to the Shrine of Baha' al -Din Naqshband | |
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| Churas: Erke Bek, a Turkestani in the Service of the Oirats | |
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| Central Asia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Age of Transition | |
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| Timur's Legendary Biographies | |
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| Thompson and Hogg: British Trade East of the Caspian | |
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| 'Abd al-Karim Kashmiri: Nadir Shah's Campaign in Central Asia | |
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| The Uzbek Tribal Dynasties | |
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| Tuhfat al-khani: The Inauguration of Muhammad Rahim Khan Mangh�t | |
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| Majma' al-arqam: An Administrative Manual from Bukhara | |
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| A Collection of Royal Decrees from Khiva | |
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| Muntakhab al-tavarikh: On the Relations between Qoqand and Kashghar | |
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| The "Great Game" to Russian Rule | |
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| Alexander Burnes: The Importance of Bukhara in Great Game Politics | |
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| Mohan Lai: A Journey among the Turkmens | |
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| Levshin: Observations on the Qazaqs | |
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| Nikolai Ignatiev: Russia's Agenda in Central Asia | |
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| Bayani: The Russian Conquest of Khiva and the Massacre of the Yomut Turkmens | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |