‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia

R. Charles Weller, Associate Professor of History (Career), Washington State University, and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Religion and Culture, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Historical Sources of Tsarist 'Survivals' Ethnography.- Chapter 2: Religious-Cultural ‘Survivals’ in Euro-American and Euro-Slavic Christian and Secular Sources.- Chapter 3: Middle Eastern and Central Asian Islamic Sources of ‘Survivals’ Historiography.- Chapter 4: ‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ among the Kazakhs in Tsarist Russian and Kazakh Colonial Ethnography, 1770-1917.- Part II: Historical Sources of Soviet 'Survivals' Ethnography.- Chapter 5: Sources and Aims of Soviet ‘Survivals’ Ethnography in Its Initial (Pre-World War Two) Phases.- Chapter 6: Transformations of Soviet ‘Survivals’ Ethnography in the Post-World War Two Period.- Part III: Historiographical Constructions of and Debates Over Kazakh Religious History and Identity in Late Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Scholorship.- Chapter 7: The Early Twentieth-Century Chernavsky-Dobrosmyslov Debate: Did Catherine the Great (r. 1762-96) Help Convert the Kazakhs to Islam?.- Chapter 8: The Framing of Kazakh Religious History and Identity in Post-World War Two Soviet Kazakh Publications.- Chapter 9: Religious-Cultural Revivalism as Historiographical Debate: Post-Soviet Kazakh Perspectives on Their Past.- Chapter 10: Retrospect & Prospect: Placing Post-Soviet "Survivals" Scholarship Within a World Historiographical Frame.