scholarly journals Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-482
Author(s):  
Erica Marat
Keyword(s):  
Asian Studies ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
To Come

scholarly journals Ritual Process and Symbolic Transformation in Cultural Landscapes of Proto-Urban Bactria

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-359
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Ionesov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Ritual Process ◽  
The Bronze Age

The focus of this discussion is a recent book on the Bronze Age Proto-Bactrian culture of Southern Uzbekistan. I dare say that there are some books that inspire us to study monuments, and there are some monuments that inspire us to write books. But there are some books that become scientific monuments themselves in documenting the archaeological artefacts in the form of texts, messages, and narratives. Among such academic works is the monograph Buston VI – the Necropolis of Fire-worshippers of Pre-urban Bactria (Samarkand: IICAS, 2016. – 634 pp. ISBN 978-9943-357-36-5), recently published by the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS).

Central Asia: West and East

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN BOARDMAN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
British India ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the interest of the west in the history of Central Asia. It explains that central Asia has been studied by many western scholars and explorers, including British archaeologist Aurel Stein and traveller Sir John de Maundeville. Central Asia figured prominently in the days of political concerns about the safety of British India in the nineteenth century and this generated the interest of scholars. Today, the boom in Central Asian studies is further encouraged by the presence in Britain of those who have worked in this field and the source of many new publications on both prehistoric and historic periods.

Hvatanica

1937 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 923-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Central Asian

It has seemed desirable to make known at once certain information of interest to Central Asian studies contained in Khotan texts of the British Museum and India Office. This information may here be conveniently grouped under the heads (1) the animal cycle of twelve years, (2) the names of the months and seasons in Khotan, (3) dates androyal names.

Muḥammad Fużūlī’s The Debate of Weed and Wine (Beng ü Bāde) Revisited: Towards a New Interpretation

DIYÂR ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-239
Author(s):  
Benedek Péri
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
To Come ◽  
Narrative Poem ◽  
Short Narrative

Muḥammad Fużūlī’s (d. 1556) Beng ü Bāde (The Debate of Weed and Wine), a short narrative poem written sometime between 1510 and 1524 by one of the outstanding authors of the classical Turkish literary tradition, has induced many scholars to come forward with an interpretation. A common feature of all these attempts is that they look at Fużūlī’s work as a unique text and tend to forget that there are two other versions of the story. Yūsuf Amīrī’s Beng ü Çaġır was written in Central Asian Turkic in the early fifteenth century and the recently found Esrār-nāme was composed in Ottoman. The present paper aims to give a short description of the Esrār-nāme and provide the reader with a new interpretation of Fużūlī’s Beng ü Bāde, in light of the comparative analysis of the three texts.

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