TY  - BOOK
AU  - Canfield,Robert L.
ED  - School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
TI  - Turko-Persia in historical perspective
SN  - 0521522919
AV  - DS57 .T83 2002
U1  - 958 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - Moyen-Orient
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Congrees
KW  - Asie centrale
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - Originally published: 1990; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : the Turko-Persian tradition / Robert L. Canfield -- Pre-Islamic and early Islamic cultures in central Asia / Richard N. Frye -- Turko-Mongol influences in central Asia / Yuri Bregel -- Islamic culture and literature in Iran and central Asia in the early modern period / Michel M. Mazzaoui -- Perso-Islamic culture in India from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century / Francis Robinson -- Theological "extremism" and social movements in Turko-Persia / Robert L. Canfield -- Local knowledge of Islam and social discourse in Afghanistan and Turkistan in the modern period / M. Nazif Shahrani -- Russia's geopolitical and ideological dilemmas in central Asia / Milan Hauner -- Chronology of events and developments in the history of the Turko-Persian ecumene
N2  - This collection of essays comprises an historical survey of the culture, a chronology of major developments in the region from the rise of the Persian empire before Islam up to the present, and six chapters by eminent authorities on the region, focusing on the importance of literature; the tension between central and peripheral institutions in Turko-Persian societies; and the confrontation of the Turko-Persian Islamicate world with the European world
ER  -