Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia

In Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia, Thomas Welsford offers a bold new way of analysing the T?q?y-T?m?rids’ accession to power at the turn of the seventeenth century.

In this work, Thomas Welsford offers a bold new way of analysing the Tuqay-Timurids' accession to power at the turn of the 17th century.

Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia offers new insights on the continuities and changes in the history of Muslim rural and pastoral societies in Central Asia under Russian rule (19th - early 20th century).

The studies in this volume mark a new phase in the development of scholarship on Sufi traditions of Central Asia, expanding and deepening the source base, reconceptualizing basic frameworks for understanding Sufi history, and challenging received assumptions and narratives.

The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic