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PREFACEThe present volume contains the proceedings of the international
conference, Uzbek-Japanese Scientific Cooperation: History and Cultureof Central Asia (Sources and Methodological Issues) organized by IV
AN RUz, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and the NIHU Program
Islamic Area Studies Center at the University of Tokyo (TIAS), andsupported by the Mitsubishi Foundation. The conference was held inTashkent on September 3-4, 2009 (at Poytaht Hotel), in the presence ofhonorable guests, Prof. Shavkat Salihov, the president of the Academyof Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and Prof. Morita Yoshikazu,Chancellor and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Kyoto Universityof Foreign Studies, and with 22 panelists (other than Uzbekistan andJapan: France, Germany, Kazakhstan, and the United States) and many
participants from all over the world.
Our conference consisted of three sessions under separate subjects
as seen in the following program.
Session I
State and Law in Central Asia from the 9th to the Early 20thCenturies = Государство и право в Центральной Азии IX–
началo XX вв.
Шамсиддин КАМАЛИДДИН (Ташкентский государственныйxivPrefaceинститут востоковедения)“Символика тюркских правителей Средней Азии IX–начала
XIII в.”Гайбулла БАБАЯРОВ, Андрей КУБАТИН (Институт востоковеденияАН РУз)“Параллели в титулатуре Западно-Тюркского и Караханидскогокаганатов (на основе нумизматического материала)”Азат СAРСЕНБАЕВ (Ташкентский исламский университет)“Роль правовых текстов в процессе развития законодательства вМавeраннахре IX-XIV вв.”Ron SELA (Indiana University)“The ‘Timur-nama’ Manuscripts at the al-Biruni Institute of OrientalStudies”
KIMURA Satoru (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)“Reinterpreting the Tuḥfat al-Khānī: How Does It Legitimize a
Non-Chingizid’s Khanate?”Бахтияр БАБАДЖАНОВ (Институт востоковедения АН РУз)“Прошлое Коканд глазами местных историков Туркестананачала ХХ века (реинтерпретации и критические оценки)”Афтандил ЭРКИНОВ (Ташкентский государственный институтвостоковедения)“Перфекционизм в хивинской придворной культурной средепри Мухаммад Рахим-хане II как способ противостоянияпротекторату (1873-1910)”
Session II
Problems of Source Study: Methodological Issues, Diplomatics,and Manuscripts = Проблемы источниковедения: вопросыметодологии, дипломатика, рукописи
HORIKAWA Toru (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies),Камилджан ХУДАЙБЕРГАНОВ (Государственный историкоархитектурный музей-заповедник «Ичан-кала»)Prefacexv“The Significance of Islamic Court Documents as Historical Sourcesof Social Information in Central Asia + Роль эпиграфическихнадписей на архитектурных памятниках г. Хивы в изучении
истории Хивинского ханства”ИСОГАЙ Кенъичи (Киотский университет по изучени юзарубежных стран)“О ривайатах из Самарканда начала XX в.: Функция ривайата всудебном разбирательстве”Галиб КУРБАНОВ (Бухарский государственный архитектурнохудожественный музей-заповедник)“Печати Бухарского ханства в коллекциях музеев”
Jeanine Elif DAĞYELI (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg& Gerda-Henkel Foundation)“The Digitalization Project of the al-Biruni Institute: Proceedings
and Prospects”Wolfgang HOLZWARTH (Oriental Institute, Martin Luther Universityof Halle-Wittenberg)“Some Inshā’ Collections from Nineteenth Century Bukhara: Possible
Interconnections and Use as Sources of Administrative History”Санджар ГУЛАМОВ (Институт востоковедения АН РУз)“О некоторых архивных документах, числящихся в составеколлекции рукописных произведений фонда Института
востоковедения имени Бируни”Салимахан ИШАНОВА (Институт востоковедения АН РУз)“О значимости литературного жанра та’рих (хронограммы) визучении истории Коканда”
Session III
Society and Culture in Historical Perspective: Social Life andIdeas of Reformism = Общество и культура в исторической
перспективе: общественная жизнь, идеи реформизмаДиларам АЛИМОВА (Институт истории АН РУз)

xviPreface“Реформаторская концепция туркестанских джадидов и идеямладотурецкого движения: сравнительный анализ”Аширбек МУМИНОВ (Институт востоковедения имени Р. Б.
Сулейменова МОН РК)“Значение фетв в изучении региональной формы бытованияислама”Халим ТУРАЕВ (Бухарский государственный университет)“Посещение культовых мест в Бухаре”
YAJIMA Yoichi (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)“The Spread of the Kubrawiyya”
KAWAHARA Yayoi (Islamic Area Studies Center at the University of Tokyo)“The Development of the Naqshbandiya-Mujaddidiya in theKhanate of Khoqand”
Devin DEWEESE (Indiana University)“‘Dis-ordering’ Sufism in Early Modern Central Asia: Suggestions
for Rethinking the Sources and Social Structures of Sufi History in
the 18th and 19th Centuries”
Stéphane A. DUDOIGNON (National Centre for Scientific Research,Paris & University of Amsterdam)“For a History of Sufism in Soviet Central Asia: The Resources (andLimitations) of Oral Sources, through the Case of Tajikistan”
Although some of the papers submitted to the conference are notincluded in this volume due to various reasons, I believe that thisvolume shows the significance of our conference as well as thediversity of recent research trends. For example Jeanine Elif Dağyeliand Sanjar Ghulomov’s joint paper “Some preliminary information
on an ongoing cataloguing project at the Biruni Institute of OrientalStudies, Tashkent” encourages our future studies based on a large
number of manuscript sources located in IV AN RUz.
In the prospectus of our conference, as the chair of the Organizing
Committee I wrote as follows:Preface

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As well known, since the late 1980s studies in the history ofCentral Asia have made a great progress not only Central Asian
republics but also in other countries in the world. New research
trends and increasing diversity in research topics are presented insuch epistemological works as Stéphane A. Dudoignon & Komatsu
Hisao eds., Research Trends in Modern Central Eurasian Studies(18 th-20 th Centuries): A Selective and Critical Bibliography ofWorks Published between 1985 and 2000 (2 vols., Tokyo: The ToyoBunko, 2003-2006) and Central Eurasian Reader prepared byStéphane A. Dudoignon (Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2008). When we
look at this remarkable progress from the view point of Japanese
historiography, we notice that two factors played great role during
the last two decades. First is the academic cooperation between
Uzbek academic institutions, among others IV AN RUz, andJapanese universities. In fact a number of joint projects have beenrealized and a lot of Japanese doctorate students have enjoyedresearch opportunities in Uzbekistan, and they constitute the main
body of Central Asian studies in Japan. Second is Franco-Japanesecooperation that has developed intensively based on affirmative
efforts among rather younger scholars and has brought about fertile
products and invaluable networks. This is the reason why wedecided to hold an international conference dedicated to the history
and culture of Central Asia, retrospecting our achievements during
the last two decades and expecting further development in our
research field.
I am sure that our wishes are going to be realized in multiple
aspects. As shown in this prospectus, Uzbek-Japanese scientificcooperation has enhanced our academic network and brought about anumber of invaluable products. For example I would like to introduce
the latest publication list of TIAS, among others TIAS Central
Eurasian Research Series.

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PrefaceБ. М. Бaбaджaнов, Журнал <Haqīqat> кaк зеркaло религиозногоаспекта в идеологии джадидов, TIAS Central Eurasian ResearchSeries, No.1, Tokyo, 2007, 66+40 pp.
Aftandil S. Erkinov, The Andijan Uprising of 1898 and its Leader
Dukchi-ishan Described by Contemporary Poets, TIAS Central
Eurasian Research Series, No.3, Tokyo, 2009. 118 pp.
Sadr al-Dīn ‘Aynī, Bukhārā Inqilābīning Ta’rīkhī, Nashrga
tayyarlavchilar: Shimada Shizuo va Sharifa Tosheva, TIAS Central
Eurasian Research Series, No.4, Tokyo, 2010, 86+299 pp.
Б. М. Бaбaджaнов, Кокандское ханство: власть, политика, религия,Токио-Ташкент, 2010, 744c.
Зайнабидин Абдирашидов, Анотированая библиографиятуркестанских материалов в газете <Таржуман>, TIAS Central
Eurasian Research Series, No.5, Tokyo, 2011, 233 pp.
During the second term of the Islamic Area Studies Program I hope
new titles will be added to this list.
Among the participants in our conference I missed Prof. AsomUrunbaev (1929-2009) who spared no pains for the development ofUzbek-Japanese cooperation in Oriental studies since 1991. Once again
I would like to express my regret over the death of this great scholar.
Finally I would like to express my deep gratitude to all thecolleagues who worked for our conference, including those who could
not participate in our conference because of unexpected reasons. I
wish to express a particular gratitude to Dr. Bayram Balci, the Directorof IFEAC, who supported our project from the initial plan. Our thanks,
however, would not be complete without mentioning great effortsof our conference secretary KIMURA Satoru as well as the editors,
KAWAHARA Yayoi and Bakhtiyar BABADJANOV.
December 2011
KOMATSU Hisao
Director of Islamic Area Studies Centerat the University of Tokyo (TIAS)