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A Guide to Orientalist Research in Soviet Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

R. D. McChesney
R. D. McChesney*
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New York University
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Extract

In 1976–1977, the writer spent nine months in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, collecting material for a study of Central Asia in the seventeenth century. Obviously then, what follows is biased in the direction of historical research. It also, of necessity, reflects the author’s own experience and omits mention of resources to which he did not in some measure have access.

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Foreign Research Report
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1978 , pp. 13 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1978

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References

1 For more detail see Akademiiȃ Nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Nauka v Uzbekistana, pt. 2, “obshchestvennye Nauki”, Tashkent 1974, pp. 226–249.

2 The institute holds such unica as Rawdat al-ridwan (biographies of the 16th century Juybari shaykhs). Imam quli-namah (a defective verse chronicle of the early 17th century); the second and third rukn of the Bahr al-asrar (the histories of the Chaghatay and Shibanid lines);;the Tarikh-i Shibani Khan… (a late 17th century history of Balkh by an eyewitness observer) For more complete details see Bregel/Storey, Persidskaia Literatura pp. 1108–1208 (Central Asian History).

3 0. D. Chekhovich, “Bukharskie Pozemel’nye Akty XVI-XIX VV.” Problemy Istochnikovedeniiȃ. v.4, 1955, p.225. “The collection of Central Asian documents of the Academy of Sciences of the Ujsbek SSR is in good order thanks to the efforts of I. Adylov and F. I. Rubinshtein, who have carried out a de tailed inventory description and put together a catalog of the documents.”

4 This list was compiled with the assistance of the Executive Secretary of the Institute.

5 Obshchestvenne Hauki. op. cit., pp. 183–4.

6 A.A. Semenov, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian. Arabic. and Turkish Manuscripts preserved in the Library of Middle Asiatic State University. Tashkent, 1935.

* I am indebted for information marked with an asterisk to William Fierman of Harvard University.

7 Mezhov, V.I., Sistematicheskie i azbuchnye ukazateli sochi-nenni i statvei. na russkom i inostrannykh yiȃzykov, 3 vols. (Tashkent)

8 Maslov, O.V., Sistameticheskii ukazateliȃ k tt. 417–591. Turkestanskogo Sbornik. Tashkent, 1940.

9 Sokrovishchnitsa Istorii Uzbekistana. Tashkent 1970, p. 10

10 Ushkanova, L.M. Katalog Dokumentov po Istorii Uz SSR Khraniȃshchikhsiȃ v Arkhive Muzeiȃ Istorii Narodov Uzbekistana. Tashkent, 1973. According to the compiler the museum has more than 12,000 documents covering events from the 19th century onward.

** Information provided by Theodore Levin of Princeton University.

11 O.D. Chekhovich, “Bukharskie Pozemelnye Akty…”, op. cit., p.224.

12 Sukhareva, O.D., Kvartal’naiȃ Obshchina Pozdnefeodal’nogo goroda Bukhary, Moscow, 1976, esp. p.4.

13 Troitskaia, A.L., Katalog arkhiva kokandskykh khanov XIX v., Moscow, 1968.

14 Including O.D. Chekhovich, E.A. Davidovich, P.P. Ivanov, R.G. Mukminova, A.Kh. Khamraev, and A. Mukhtarov.

15 Tadzhikskaiȃ Sovietskaiȃ Sotsialisticheskaiȃ Respublika. Dushanbe, 1974. p.248.

16 Mirzoev, A.M. et. al., Katalog Vostokhnykh Rukopisei Ak. Nauk. Tadzh. SSR, 1960. The present curator of the ras. collection, Amri Yazdan Alimardanov, indicated that eventually a five volume Arabic ms. catalog would also appear.

17 Tadzh. Sov. Soc. Res., op. cit., p.248.

18 Barthold, V.V., Sochineniiȃ, v. VIII, pp.380–383 (for excerpts and description).

19 The estimate based on the highest inventory numbers in the catalog (see next note).

20 A. IUnusov, Fekhrasti dastnaviskhoi toiiki – forsii kitob-khonai Davlatii RSS Tojikiston ba nomi Abulgosim Firdavsi. jild-i I Dushanbe 1971, 296 pp. Neither this catalog, nor references to the Firdawsi Library Collection are mentioned in Bregel/Storey.

21 Uz. Gos. Ist. Muzei g. Samarqanda, Inventarnaia kniga rukoipisnvkh dokumentov feodal’no-kolonial’nogo perioda, kniga 1, nos. 1–1002 kniga 2, nos. 1003–1197 (as of May, 1977)

22 Chekhovich, O.D. “Vakufny dokument vremeni Tintura…”, Epiqrafika Vostoka. v.IV, 1951 pp. 55–67.