Browsing School of Sciences and Humanities by Subject "Afghanistan"

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The Ismaili of Central Asia

Beben, Daniel (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History., 2018)

The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili ...
NATIONALISM FROM THE MARGINS: A CRITICAL STUDY OF ELITIST HISTORIOGRAPHY AND POLITICS IN MĀWARĀʾ AL-NAHR AND KHURĀSĀN (LATER UZBEKISTAN, TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN), 1800-1950.

Ahwar, Ahmad Javeed (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

This dissertation traces the history of national ideas in Māwarāʾ al-Nahr and Khurāsān, later known as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, from the margins. This study follows the transformations of ideas of differences ...
The Legendary Biographies of Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Ismāʿīlism

Beben, Daniel (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2015)

This dissertation examines the legendary biographical traditions concerning the eleventh-century Ismāʿīlī philosopher and missionary Nāṣir-i Khusraw and their significance for the history of the Badakhshān region of Central ...