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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paskaleva, Elena (Professor of Central Asian culture), editor.

Van den Berg, Gabrielle Rachel, 1967- editor.

Series:

Leiden studies in Islam and society, 2210-8920 ; volume 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Asia, Central.

Collective memory.

Memorials--Asia, Central.

Memorials.

Asia, Central--Social life and customs.

Asia, Central.

Asia, Central--Historiography.

Historiography.

Manners and customs.

Central Asia.

Physical Description:

xvii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Texts, traditions and practices, 10th-21st centuries

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 'Aynīand Sotim Uluġzoda in the Leiden University library : a closer look at 'Aynī'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 / Maira 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 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 'Abdullāh Bāltaev (1880-1966) / Bakhtiyar Babadjanov

"Memory traces :" Buston Buva Mazār in the Ferghana region of Uzbekistan, 1980s-2010s / Věra Exnerová.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Memory and commemoration across Central Asia

ISBN:

9789004310278

9004310274

OCLC:

1371463677

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004540996 DOI