Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia

Dagikhudo Dagiev is Research Associate in the Department of Academic Research and Publications at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK.Carole Faucher is Professor in the Nazarbayev University, Graduate School of Education, Kazakhstan and Visiting Researcher with the Department of Anthropology at the Universtité de Montréal. She is also Research Affiliated with the UNESCO Chair "Global Health and Education".

• 1. Introduction: Locating Pamiri Communities in Central Asia, Carole Faucher and Dagikhudo Dagiev Identity Formation, Borders and Political Transformations 2. Geography, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage in Interplay in the Context of the Tajik Pamiri Identity, Sunatullo Jonboboev 3. Pamiri Ethnic Identity and its Evolution in Post-Soviet Tajikistan, Dagikhudo Dagiev 4. The Wakhi Language: Marginalisation and Endangerment, Sherali Gulomaliev 5. The Tajiks of China: Identity in the Age of Transition, Amier Saidula Archaeology, Myths, Intellectual and Cultural Heritage 6. A Badakhshānī Origin for Zoroaster, Yusufsho Yaqubov and Dagikhudo Dagiev7. The Silk Road Castles and Temples: Ancient Wakhan in Legends and History, Abdulmamad Iloliev 8. Nasir-i Khusraw’s Intellectual Contribution: the Meaning of Pleasure and Pain in His Philosophy, Ghulam Abbas Hunzai 9. Religious Identity in the Pamirs: the Institutionalisation of the Ismāʿīlī Daʿwa in Shughnān, Daniel Beben 10. Forgotten Figures of Badakhshan: Sayyid Munir al-Din Badakhshani and Sayyid Haydar Shah Mubarakshahzada, Muzaffar Zoolshoev Social Cohesion, Interactions and Globalization 11. Blessed People in a Barren Land: The Bartangi and their Success Catalyser Barakat, Stefanie Kicherer 12. Promoting Peace and Pluralism in the Rural, Mountainous Region of Chitral, Pakistan, Mir Afzal Tajik, Ali Nawab and Abdul Wali Khan 13. A ‘Shift’ in Values: Mother’s Educational Role in the Gorno-Badakhshan Region, Nazira Sodatsayrova 14. Project Identity: the Discursive Formation of Pamiri Identity in the Age of the Internet, Aslisho Qurboniev 15. Religious Education and Self-Identification among Tajik Pamiri Youth, Carole Faucher

"The editors should be praised for their efforts to feed necessary and timely academic discussions of salient issues that have taken new turns after the independence of central Asian republics and are constitutive for internal societal relations. The opportunity of transboundary academic cooperation will create further momentum if common issuesare identified and addressed from various regional and disciplinary perspectives." - Hermann Kreutzmann, International Mountain Society