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A Khwārazmian Saint in the Golden Horde: Közlük Ata (Gözlī Ata) and the Social Vectors of Islamisation by DeWeese, Devin

“…Abstract : The notion that Sufi shaykhs and Sufi communities played a role in the Islamisation of the Mongol successor states in the 13th and 14th centuries is…”
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It was a Dark and Stagnant Night ('til the Jadids Brought the Light): Clichés, Biases, and False Dichotomies in the Intellectual History of Central Asia by DeWeese, Devin

“…This essay presents a broad critique of prevailing approaches to and assumptions about Jadidism, arguing that much earlier scholarship on the Jadids has…”
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K wangmin K im . Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market by DeWeese, Devin

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The Mongols & the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion By Peter Jackson by DeWeese, Devin

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Shamanization in Central Asia by DeWeese, Devin

“…A significant body of Muslim religious rites, with roots in Sufi devotional practice, continued to be conducted in Central Asia well into the Soviet era,…”
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Telling Women's Stories in 16th-Century Central Asia: A Book of Guidance in Chaghatay Turkic for a Royal Lady of the Bukharan Court by DeWeese, Devin

“…This study explores a substantial work in Chaghatay Turkic produced in Bukhārā in the early 16th century for ʿĀʾisha Sulṭān Khānïm, wife of the 'Uzbek'…”
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane by Frederick Starr (review) by DeWeese, Devin

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Sacred History for a Central Asian TownSaints, Shrines, and Legends of Origin inHistories of Sayrām, 18th-19th Centuries by DeWeese, Devin

“…This article examines historical myths focused on Sayrām, a small town in the south of present-day Kazakstan, as a case study of indigenous conceptions of…”
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Muslim medical culture in modern Central Asia: a brief note on manuscript sources from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries by DeWeese, Devin

“…This article surveys the body of medical literature, in Arabic, Persian and Turkic, produced and circulated in Central Asia from the sixteenth to twentieth…”
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Moving Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Cultural Change in Muslim Eurasia (19th-20th Centuries) by Eden, Jeff, Sartori, Paolo, DeWeese, Devin

“…The introduction outlines the key issues underlying the contributions to the volume, problematizing the terminology and conceptual framework typically adopted…”
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Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan by Devin DeWeese

“…This volume is a good contribution to the growing body of ethnographic literature on religious life in Central Asia; it adds substantively to the diverse…”
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SUCCESSION PROTOCOLS AND THE EARLY KHWAJAGANI SCHISM IN THE "MASLAK AL-ʿĀRIFĪN" by DEWEESE, DEVIN

“…The history of the Central Asian Sufi community known as the Khwajagan, most familiar as the precursor of the Naqshbandiya, is marked by an important early…”
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The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry. By Omid Safi by DeWeese, Devin

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La Horde d'Or et l'islamisation des steppes eurasiatiques by Aasi, Joni, Achcar, Gilbert, Appelt, Nicolas, Balda, Monica, Balivet, Michel, Blévis, Laure, Boissevain, Katia, Bras, Jean-Philippe, Coste, Frédéric, DeWeese, Devin, Dode, Zvezdana, Durocher, Maxime, Favereau, Marie, France, Pierre, Groc, Gérard, Guignard, Xavier, Hautala, Roman, Kançal-Ferrari, Nicole, Landa, Ishayahu, Larcher, Pierre, Lessan Pezechki, Homa, Longuenesse, Elisabeth, Méouchy, Nadine, Mias, Coline, Montabone, Benoit, Moussaoui, Abderrahmane, Peacock, A.C.S, Petrovich, Maya, QIU, Yihao, Richard, Annick, Romani, Vincent, Salamon, Anaïs, Shamsimukhametova, Milyausha, Shingiray, Irina, Suzanne, Gilles, Tanase, Thomas, Tonsy, Sarah, Trepavlov, Vadim V, Vannetzel, Marie

“…Les conversions des khans Berke (1257-67) et Özbeg (1312-41) eurent un immense retentissement dans le dār al-islām et au-delà de ses frontières. Les souverains…”
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The Politics of Sacred Lineages in Nineteenth-Century Central Asia: Descent Groups Linked to Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi in Shrine Documents and Genealogical Charters by DeWeese, Devin

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Sacred Places and 'Public' Narratives: The Shrine of Amad Yasav? in Hagiographical Traditions of the Yasav?ūf? Order, 16th-17th Centuries by DeWeese, Devin

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Sacred Places and ‘Public’ Narratives: The Shrine of Amad Yasav? in Hagiographical Traditions of the Yasav?ūf? Order, 16 th ‐17 th Centuries by DeWeese, Devin

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The Politics of Sacred Lineages in 19th-Century Central Asia: Descent Groups Linked to Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi in Shrine Documents and Genealogical Charters by DeWeese, Devin

“…Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi, the celebrated saint of Central Asia who lived most likely in the late 12th century, is perhaps best known as a Sufi shaykh and (no doubt…”
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Sacred History for a Central Asian Town : Saints, shrines, and legends of origin in histories of Dayram, 18th-19th centuries: Figures mythiques de l'Orient musulman by DEWEESE, Devin

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Sacred history for a Central Asian town. Saints, shrines and legends of origin in histories of Sayram, 18th-19th centuries by DeWeese, Devin

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