Islam, society and states across the Qazaq Steppe (18th-early 20th centuries)
By: Niccolò Pianciola and Paolo Sartori (eds.).
Contributors: Istituto per le ricerche di storia sociale e di storia religiosa (Vicenza, Italy)
Series: Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse -- 844. Bd. -- Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik -- Nr. 72; Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 844. Bd.; Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik -- Nr. 72.
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783700173366
Subjects: Islam; Congresses; History; Kazakhs; Social conditions; Steppes; Politics and government
Notes: Proceedings of a conference on the social and religious history of Central Asia organized by the Institute of Social and Religious History (Vicenza), held at the Cini Foundation in Venice, Italy, in October, 2009.

Academy publication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : towards a connected history of the Qazaq Steppe  -- Niccolò Pianciola and Paolo Sartori; title: The Yasavī presence in the Dasht-i Qïpchaq from the 16th to 18th century  -- Devin DeWeese; title: Notes on the Yasavīya and Naqshbandīya in Western Siberia in the 17th : early 20th centuries  -- Alfrid Bustanov; title: The changing religious orientation of Qazaq intellectuals in the tsarist period: sharī'a, secularism, and ethics  -- Tomohiko Uyama; title: The Qazaq Steppe and Islamic administrative exceptionalism : a comparison with Buddhism among Buriats  -- Paul W. Werth; title: Qazaq religious beliefs in the writings of Russian doctors during the Imperial Age (1731-1917)  -- Anna Afanasyeva; title: Disadvantaged neophytes of the privileged religion : why Qazaqs did not become Christians  -- Yuriy Malikov; title: Sufis, scholars, and divanas of the Qazaq Middle Horde in the works of Mäshhür Zhüsip Köpeyulï  -- Allen J. Frank; title: Sharī'a for the Bolsheviks? : Fatvās on land reform in early Soviet Central Asia  -- Bakhtiyar Babajanov and Sharifjon Islamov; title: Correcting transgressions in the House of Islam : Yang Zengxin's Buguozhai wendu on Xinjiang's Muslims  -- David Brophy; title: Interpreting an insurgency in Soviet Kazakhstan : the OGPU, Islam and Qazaq "Clans" in Suzak, 1930 -- Niccolò Pianciola-- Index.