Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde Baba T�kles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition

Devin Deweese is a professor of Islamic and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.He received his PhD in 1985 at Indiana University, and since then has continued to do research on Central Asian Islam, particularly Sufism and its political and social dimensions. He has published major studies of Central Asian religion and history using Persian, Arabic and Turkic manuscript sources he has painstakingly accumulated from collections all over the world. Until 2008, he served as the Director of the Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies at Indiana University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2006.