From the Khan's oven : studies on the history of Central Asian religions in Honor of Devin DeWeese
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From the Khan's oven : studies on the history of Central Asian religions in Honor of Devin DeWeese
(Handbuch der Orientalistik = Handbook of Oriental studies, section 8 . Uralic and Central Asian studies / edited by Paolo Sartori,
Brill, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The volume's unifying theme, inspired by the scholarly legacy of Professor Devin DeWeese, and indeed the subject of all the contributions, is the history of religion among the Muslim peoples of Inner and Central Asia, grounded in ignored or hitherto unknown indigenous sources. Individually, and as a whole, the articles pay tribute to DeWeese's pathbreaking contributions to the disciplines of history and religious studies by exploring new approaches and new sources to build on this legacy. The volume pays particular attention to DeWeese's point d'appui: the centrality of Sufism in the region's religious, social, and literary history.
The volume's focus is thus twofold: to bring a new set of rich, largely unused materials into the scholarly domain among specialists on Central Asia, and to challenge historians of Islam to recognize that understanding the religious history of Central Asia, and Sufism in particular, is crucial in evaluating the Islamic world as a whole.
Contributors:
Peter B. Golden, Jurgen Paul, Ron Sela, Nicholas Walmsley, Jo-Ann Gross, Daniel Beben, Jeff Eden, Jamal Elias, Michael Kemper, Paolo Sartori, Eren Tasar, Stephane A. Dudoignon, Allen J. Frank
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