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Qozha Imam Faizulla, Bureaucracy, and Coal Stoves: A Case Study of Late Soviet Islam in Kazakhstan 科扎·伊玛目·法祖拉、官僚主义和煤炉:苏联后期伊斯兰教在哈萨克斯坦的个案研究

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-20230012

U. Bigozhin

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Дискуссия А.З. Валидова и В.В. Бартольда об академическом востоковедении и империи

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-20230013

Anton R. Ikhsanov

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Anatomy of a Caravan Raid: Peril and Possibility in the Kazakh Steppe, 1800–1860 商队突袭的剖析:1800-1860年哈萨克草原的危险与可能性

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-20230011

J. Eden

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Mīrzā Abd al-Raḥmān’s Vernacular Ethnography

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-20230014

Ulfatbek Abdurasulov, P. Sartori

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Алтин-хан-тура: биобиблиографический очерк

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-12340010

Ф.Ф. Хуснутдинов

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Becoming Behbudiy

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-12340002

T. Welsford

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From Folk Epics to Epic Monuments: Studying and Publishing Epic Lore in the Soviet Union (1920s–1960s) 从民间史诗到史诗纪念碑:苏联史诗文学研究与出版(20世纪20 - 60年代)

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-12340003

Svetlana Jacquesson

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The Elusive zemskii sbor, or: Taxation without Representation in Russian Turkestan? 难以捉摸的泽姆斯基索尔，还是:俄罗斯突厥斯坦没有代表权的税收?

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-12340001

Beatrice Penati

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Down and Out in Khandu and Qarakhoja: An Autobiography from Late Qing Turfan 康都和喀拉喀的穷困潦倒:晚清吐鲁番自传

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-12340004

E. Schluessel

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At the Coronation! A Khivan Ambassador Makes It to Moscow (1762) 在加冕典礼上!希万大使前往莫斯科(1762年)

Journal of Central Asian History Pub Date : 2022-05-05 DOI: 10.1163/27728668-12340005

Ulfatbek Abdurasulov, P. Sartori

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