Medieval History of Central Asia

This is presentation of the part 1 of the open public lecture "The Samanids - First Local Islamic Dynasty in Central Asia" given at 24 October 2019 in the Historical Channel of the Uzbekistan TV. This part is devoted to the question of origin of the Samanids.

This book is devoted to research of some unknown aspects of the history of Central Asia in the period of the Samanids dynasty, such as origin of the Samanids, their administration, legal status, ethnic situation, rise of New Persian lettarature and some others.

This is presentation of the part 3 of the open public lecture"The Samanids - First Local Islamic Dynasty in Central Asia" given at 26 October 2019 in the Historical Channel of the Uzbekistan TV. This part is devoted to the question of legal status of the Samanids.

This is textbook of the special course "Medieval Arabic and Persian sources on the history of Central Asia" for MA students of the Departments of History of the Tashkent State Institiute of Oriental Studies and Tashkent State Pedagogical University named after Nizami.

This is the textbook of the lecture "The Samanids: History of statehood of Uzbekistan in the 9th - 10th centuries" of the special course "Actual problems of the historiography of the Central Asian history" for MA students of the Departments of History of the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Stadies and Tashkent State Pedagogical University. The textboo written in cooperation with Dr. Ziyauddin Ilhamov.

This book contains the Russian translation of the parts related to the history of Central Asia in the "al-Kamil fi-Ta'rikh" ("The Complete book of History") by Ibn al-Athir (early 6th c, A.H. / early 13th c. A.D.), written in Arabic. The text translated and commented by Pavel Georgievich Bulgakov. Additions to the translation and commentaries by Shamsiddin Kamoliddin.

This is 3rd part of Russian translations of the "Surat al-Ard" ("Configuration of the Earth") by Ibn Hawqal (3rd c. A.H./10th c. A.D.) written in Arabic. This book contains the Russian translation of the part related to Ma wara' al-nahr. The text translated and commented by Shamsiddin Kamoliddin. The 2nd part contained translation of the part related to Khurasan. The 1st part contained translation of the part related to the Caspian Sea and lands around it.

This book contains the Turkic text, faxcimile, transcription and commentary of the document given by Amir Temur to the descendants of Abu Muslim in Khwarazm. The Turkic text translated and commented by Gulsara Ostonova in cooperation with Bahriddin Mannonov and Shamsiddin Kamoliddin.

This is Uzbek translation of the geographical and historical parts of the "Fada'il-i Balkh" ("Merits of Balkh") by Safi al-Din Abu Bakr 'Abd Allah ibn 'Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Wa'iz al-Balkhi written in 610/1213-14 in Balkh with historical and geographical commentaries. The Persian text translated by Iqboljon Usmonov, the commentaries written by Shamsiddin Kamoliddin.

This paper discusses data of medieval sources on the historical geography and history of science in the Farab region which id present day Turkistan region in the south of Kazakhstan. It was presented during the conference dedicated to 2000 anniverssary of the Karachik. the town near Turkistan.

This is a commentary to the paper "Persian Legends on Islamic Coins: from Traditional Arabic to the Challenge of Leadership" by V.N.Nastich published in The 2nd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins [Polymnia. Numismatica antica e medievale. Studi, 1], Trieste 2010, pр. 165 – 190.

This is a commentary to the chapter named “The Coming of Islam to Balkh” by Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy in the book “Authority and Control in the Countryside from antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (Sixth – Tenth Century)” / Ed. by A.Delattre, M.Legendre, P.Sijpesteijn. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2019, p. 284 – 310.

This book contains the Turkic text, faxcimile, transcription and Russian translation of the document given by Amir Temur to the descendants of Abu Muslim in Khwarazm. The Turkic text translated and commented by Gulsara Ostonova in cooperation with Bahriddin Mannonov and Shamsiddin Kamoliddin.

This is presentation of the paper presented in the The Sixth Islamic Manuscript Conference: Central Asian Islamic Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections (July 8 - 10, 2010), Queen’s College, University of Cambridge, UK. You can find Russian translation of this paper in the folder "Papers".

This book is devoted to research of some unknown aspects of the history of Central Asia in the period of the Samanids dynasty, such as origin of the Samanids, their administration, legal status, ethnic situation, rise of New Persian lettarature and some others.

The article discusses the use of the term “Uzbek” and the toponym “Uzbekistan” in medieval textual sources. The name Uzbek is first mentioned in the sources of the 12th century; this name used by some of the Turkic rulers of the Near and Middle East. The origin of the toponym Uzbekistan is associated with the name of the ruler of the Golden Horde, Uzbek-Khan. In the fourteenth century the name of Uzbekistan was understood as the Golden Horde. In the fifteenth century after the collapse of the Golden Horde into several Khanates, the name Uzbekistan was attached to the Uzbek Ulus, i.e. the state of nomadic Uzbeks, formed in the eastern part of the Golden Horde. From the beginning of the sixteenth century the toponym Uzbekistan began to be applied to the whole of Central Asia, on the territory of which the state of the Shaybanids was formed. This name was used as a synonym for the place names Turan and Turkestan up to 1865, when Central Asia was conquered by the Russian Empire. Based on these data, we have every reason to believe that the toponym Uzbekistan, used during 365 years (from the beginning of the 16th century up to 1965) in relation to the whole of Central Asia, was one of the historical names of the region.