Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This volume was produced with funds provided by the Ohio State University Department of History and College of Arts and Humanities, and the Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian Studies and Islamic Studies Program. We are especially grateful for the original contributions to this anthology made by Devin DeWeese, Paul Losensky, and David Knighting, as well as to the generous counsel by our colleagues Akram Khabibullaev, Mika Natif, and Christopher Atwood, and the anonymous reviewers of this volume. Scott Tyler at Indiana University Graphic Services prepared the detailed map accompanying this volume. We are grateful for Yuri Bregel’s permission to base our map on maps that he had prepared and published in his Historical Central Asia Maps (Papers on Inner Asia Special Supplement no. 1, Bloomington, 2000). We thank our editors at Indiana University Press, Rebecca Tolen and Laura MacLeod, for their support and dedication to this project. Lee Keeling provided valuable technical assistance in preparing several parts of the manuscript. Scott Levi would also like to thank Ali Shahhosseini for his friendship and valuable guidance in preparing for publication the original translation of the excerpt from Muhammad Hakim Khan’s Muntakhab al-tavarikh. Chapter 1: F. C. Murgotten, tr., The origins of the Islamic state, being a translation from the Arabic accompanied with annotations geographic and historic notes of the Kitâb Futûh al-Buldân of al-Imâm Abu-l ‘Abbâs, Ahmad ibn-Jâbir alBal âdhuri, vol. 2 (New York: Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences, 1916). Chapter 2: (1) Reprinted by permission from The History of al-Tabari (Ta’rikh al-rusul wa’l-muluk), vol. XXIII, The Zenith of the Marwanid House: The Last Years of ῾ Abd al-Malik and the Caliphate of al-Walid, A.D. 700–715/A.H. 81–96, translated and annotated by Martin Hinds, the State University of New York Press © 1990, State University of New York. All rights reserved. (2) Reprinted by permission from The History of al-Tabari (Ta’rikh alrusul wa’l-muluk), vol. XXV, The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hisham, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120, translated and annotated by Khalid Yahya Blankinship , the State University of New York Press © 1989, State University of New York. All rights reserved. Chapter 3: Richard N. Frye, The History of Bukhara: Translated from a Persian Abridgement of the Arabic Original by Narshakhī (Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1954). Chapter 4: Indiana University Press, which has published this book, acknowledges the material derived from Hudūd al-῾ Ālam, ‘The Regions of the World’: A Persian Geography, as edited by C. E. Bosworth (London, 1970). This work is x Acknowledgments published by the Trustees of the E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, who have granted their consent to reproduce it here. Chapter 5: Reprinted by permission from The Life of Ibn Sina: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation, by William E. Gohlman, the State University of New York Press © 1974, State University of New York. All rights reserved. Chapter 6: Jamil Ali, tr., The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances between Cities: A Translation from the Arabic of al-Bīrūnī’s Kitāb Tahdīd Nihāyāt al-Amākin Litashīh Masāfāt al-Masākin, Beirut : The American University of Beirut, 1967. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. Chapter 7: Talat Tekin, A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic, Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 69 (Bloomington/The Hague: Mouton, 1968). Reproduced by permission of the Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. Chapter 8: The life and works of Jahiz; translations of selected texts, by Charles Pellat, translated from the French [Ms.] by D. M. Hawke (Routledge & Kegan Paul © 1969). Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK. Chapter 9: A. P. Martinez, “Gardizi’s Two Chapters on the Turks,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 2 (1982): 109–217. Reproduced by permission of the author. Chapter 10: James E. McKeithen, “The Risalah of Ibn Fadlan: an Annotated Translation and Introduction” (Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1979). Reproduced by permission of the author. Chapter 11: Mahmud al-Kashgari, Compendium of the Turkic dialects (Diwan Lughat at-Turk), ed. and tr. by Robert Dankoff and James Kelly, in Sources of Oriental Languages and Literatures, series ed. Sinasi Tekin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1982). Chapter 12: Istoriia Kazakhstana v persidskikh istochnikakh. T. 1. AlMulkhakat bi-s-surakh...