Memory and Commemoration Across Central Asia : Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries / edited by Elena Paskaleva and 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 ; Volume 17.

Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Series ; 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : 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.

Contents:

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 Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bukhara

Florian Schwarz

Part 2 Epic Heroes and Literary Legacies

3 Turk amongst Tajiks

The Turkic Shāhnāma Translation Located in Tajikistan and Manuscript Production during the Abuʾl-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 Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAynī and Sotim Uluġzoda in the Leiden University Library

A Closer Look at ʿAynī’s Jodgorī (1935) and Uluġzoda’s Saëhati Buxoro Bo Hamrohii Aĭnī (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 Ḥaẓīra 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 ʿAbdullāh Bāltaev (1880–1966)

Bakhtiyar Babadjanov

14 “Memory Traces:” Buston Buva Mazār in the Ferghana Region of Uzbekistan, 1980s–2010s

Věra Exnerová

Glossary of Terms

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-54099-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004540996 DOI