Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia

Elena Paskaleva, Ph.D. (2010) is Assistant Professor of Critical Heritage Studies at Leiden University. Her courses deal with the politics of commemoration across the Middle East and Asia. She has published on the history and socio-political importance of Timurid architecture.Gabrielle van den Berg, Ph.D (1997) is Professor of Cultural History of Iran and Central Asia at Leiden University. She has published on classical Persian and Tajik literature and has worked extensively on the oral traditions of Badakhshan, Tajikistan.

• List of FiguresTransliterationIntroductionElena Paskaleva, with Gabrielle van den BergPart 1 Historiographic Narratives1 Perceptions of History in Persian Chronicles of the Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries in Central AsiaCharles Melville2 Remembering Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century BukharaFlorian SchwarzPart 2 Epic Heroes and Literary Legacies3 Turk amongst TajiksThe Turkic Shāhnāma Translation Located in Tajikistan and Manuscript Production during the Abuʾl-Khayrid Annexation of Khurasan (1588–1598)Jaimee Comstock-Skipp4 The Epic Hero Manas as the Archetype of Autonomy—Nostalgia and Futurities in Kyrgyz Spiritual and Ethno-Nationalist DiscoursesNienke van der Heide5 Literary Souvenirs from Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAynī and Sotim Uluġzoda in the Leiden University LibraryA Closer Look at ʿAynī’s Jodgorī (1935) and Uluġzoda’s Saëhati Buxoro Bo Hamrohii Aĭnī (1950)Gabrielle van den BergPart 3 Memory, Religious and Social Practices6 Editing Sufism: Contemporary Negotiations on Memory and Religious Practice in AfghanistanAnnika Schmeding7 Ethnographic Writing on Bukharan Jews: From Lost Tribes to Community ScholarshipMaira Kaye8 Dynamics of Perpetuity: “Traditional” Horse Games in KyrgyzstanSimone de BoerPart 4 Shrines and Monuments as Sites of Memory9 Genealogy and Family Ties of Mawarannahr Sayyids: A Study Based on Funerary EpigraphyBabur Aminov10 Ḥaẓīra Memorial Complexes in Mawarannahr: Evolution and Architectural FeaturesMavlyuda Yusupova11 Commemorating the Russian Conquest of Central AsiaAlexander Morrison12 Remembering the Alisher Navoi Jubilee and the Archaeological Excavations in Samarqand in the Summer of 1941Elena Paskaleva13 Soviet Legitimization of Islamic Architecture in Old Khiva as Reflected in the Diaries of ʿAbdullāh Bāltaev (1880–1966)Bakhtiyar Babadjanov14 “Memory Traces:” Buston Buva Mazār in the Ferghana Region of Uzbekistan, 1980s–2010sVěra ExnerováGlossary of TermsIndex