MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION BULLETINVOLIJI IE XII , No. l , February I , 1978

ANNOT'NCEMENTS

VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM - SPRING 1978pRocBAM coMMrrrEE r9z8 - TNSTRUCTT.Ns ron suBr,,risiror' 70

OF PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS 72REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AND FOR TIIE PRESIDENT-ELECT 72

TAB],N OF CONTENTS

A RIPORT OX THN AVAIIABIE RICORDINCS OI MIDDI,N 'AST'R}IyIJSIC Iltl THt IJNIT'D STATXS by Lorraine Saknte. .

A CUID! TO ORIENTALIST RlS'ARClI IN SOVIET CENTRAL ASI!by R,D. I icchesney. 13

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Al-Q^zzaz, Ido@^ in the ltiddle last rnd North ,\f!ica: An

B"irutf,-TEF! n d- srdr Lr rhe lrddtF raa' . A !Fo-crrpnl . , | : r .dJ.

LcZFE:-_FF-t i ;TE:n.- of . t .sscs jn c. lge- ja: a srJdy olColonrcl isn rhd Soc

-o:!oliTi;--l'l 'rA.

urc d "s

lE ilouine r-ii ;l T;_l!6,iisldF:7i5-:--:.

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n -Verhdl tn issa der BruerI ichen

\. : r , TsIJ-r i : -nd rh. pr :ahr or Iar .qc, : ! r " i ;_! l ' -s i iuT-I ;Tp t f im1r or cur ' Ar,o,c .rhndel , Th@.

""4' . , .s,"@'5rd,r HrErory

'h Fal i -F, votunF I

'nd .rlol !. TI;-6Tr-E-tte-tTfi iiTE-fi iitilT

ot Proposdts for Papers.

ElEyll,lTH INIUA! IMTING OF frtEsA:i l i lutes of the l l th Annual Business yeet ihg. . , . " 43Repo.t of the Edi tor- in-chief of IJ l t ts . . . 45Repolt of tha Resealch andTrainine Comtxtee. . . . . . . . 46Relort o! the torbntlo! ol t{EEca . , 4asumary inutos of Boald of Directors ear ihs, . . . . . . . 49

ITLLOI{SEIIS AND GRANTS AVAI] ,ABLE ". . . , ] I9

ItIlOl{SHIpS AND CtulNTS RECIMD. . . . 53PLlCnynXT LIST1NCS . . . . . . . 55?IICEYNNT OPPORTIJNITIE . , . , " . 55rLrTURt COXTERXNCES . . . . . . . 56SUMIER PROGi. \ I IS IN } I IDDIN E.4ST STIJDINS . . " . . . " . 5?PROGRAIIS IN IDDI! XAST STUDIES. , , . . . . I '3IMERNATIONAL VISITORS. . , " . 65t tc lNT pUBIICATIONS. . . . . " . 67Ml{s roR THx M!r{BERs,. l . osNN]fS OT THI ISSOCIATION:

vis i t ing Scholars prosran - Slr i ls lgza. . . . . . . . ZO

Request tor llonilations for the Board of Directorsa.d tof the Presidel t -Xloct , . . . " .72

Procran Connit tea l97a - Instruct ions for Subnission

75NIWS OI THI MEItsERS.

FOBEIGN RESEARCH REPORT

1.s c Lrc . tFvEnLr rn , - - r i -s of , -po, o,lesealch cltnate and facilities in usA countries,

by Rouhollah X. Reazari appeared in vot. 3, No. 3of the Bulletin, A r€port on Resealch Ia.ilitiesin Algetia' by I l,Jilliam zaltman appearad in Vol.4, No. 1. Resealch raci l i t iee in the U,A.R. byJolD a. wil1itus sas lnrrlished in voI. 4, No. 2.

, i l ' r id J. oolr i ' .1d Jo n l . . r - rbu!y a! !ed--o I 'vol . 4, N6. 3. "Res€arch raci l i t ies in Tnnis iaby Michelle Raccagni

'as published in Vo1, 6, No. 1.

"Research laci l i t ies in lebanon'by Micha€l c, Hud-

tn Israel" by wi l l ia u. Bl inne! alpeared in Vo1. 7,No. 1- ro-sFd"c fdci l i t i - " in L!e io,

' oy o-t-r

K. Bechtold was published in vo1. 7, No. 2. oppo!-tlDities and lacilities fo! research in syrialappeafed in vol . a, No. 1. r inal ly, "R€s€arch in

. l i r , t - and urfFrr r ro iF ._oi by\ ! ro-d H, cr . r . jno Dob-rr w. roo\cy appod,Fo invo1. a, No. 3- rhe association is gfateful to re-s-crch schota! . for - !Fir r ia-ing and plepaling thes€ r€poits-

A GUIDE TO ORINNTAI-IST SOVIET CNMF.CI! ASIA

Introduction

In 1916-1977, the @ite! spent nin. morths in Tashkehr,Uzbek soviet socialist Republic, collectinq nateliat for a sru-dy of central Asia in the selenreenrh c.4tuiy- obviously then,what follous is biased in the dire.tion of historical research.

n€cessity, reflects the author's om ex.p€fience andonits nenlion .f lesorrces to which he did not in sone n€asule

Research ih the soviet Union requires corsiderabte pre-arlangefrent. virtually all scholarly researcn ta*es place un-de! the terms of the ceneral agreeh.nt lrer'een the USA and tteUssR oh contacts, nxchanges, and cooperation. The adfrinister-ins aqency in l]le united states is the rnrelmtional R€s€arctand Elcnarg€s Boald, 110 xast sgth street, NeH yoxk. Any que-stions rith regard to lesearcl in certral asia sholtd be di-

R, D. Mcches^eyNev York Uniwersity

Tastkent, Uz, ssR

h qeneral, it is possible to consider the res€arch faci-

l i t i - - r ' - i t !c1 A i r ' .d.- .5rcc hF r inqs: d Eat S nst l -

tltes, univelsities, and other institutions includinq libraties,drd d.po6jEol ic . Lh- ^aoi ta l

n ' / . co), Err L\ !_c typ's i 6 'FDr 's 'aL'd.

rnsr i tute of or ienral isn ( Inst i t l t vostokovedeni ia i ( . Birui) ,

U1itsa cortovo, al, ALade(qorodok, rashkent

this institute is the prtncipal center of r€search on the

Ne-! "sr ard r LtF r- l - r ic p4' iod. -L< 'a. i l i -

ties fo! quest include a 1a!ge nanuscript .ollection,

a collection of documentaty materials, and a lithographed bookscollection. Theie is a manuscripts ieadins roon, microfilningnnd photocopyins factlities, and a reference ltbtaly.

In 1976-77, tnete uere one iundied and ttenty-five leseaf.h-!.s Hofkinq at th€ instltute. (ahis comPares with the apptoxi-iitely t{6 hundred vorkinq at the hstitute of orientalism, I€-

nlnqrad Branch and tlle (ore than eiqht hundled ai the Moscdrrrrncli of the Ihstitute of orientalism.) the institute is dtvt-, i , r inro rso pr incipal pal ts- Th€ f i rst , the Div is ion of the!t,,to!y. I-cononi.s, and cultules of the (non-Sovie!) Olient, pu!-

lri research into "the problems of lhe histortcal past anal pre-,.nt (sic) in neiqtboring countlies of the Eaet, especially their

'.,\inomic and cultural .onnections with central Aeta in th€ noder!

r".rl(nl, national lileration novements sithin theser.ount!ies,of peasant uprisings i ald the 1ike.' The countries

r!,1 lvinc the rain attention aie lra., Afghanistan, pa*ista, and

,r I '.

Ihe focus of the lesearcters is on lhe nineteenth adI ! i i l : l . th centur ies.

nx. second section of the institute is the Division of the.r ! , r , r ly Escr ipt ion and hlbl icat ion of the ot iental Manusct ipts-

" r . . ' !o1l i . p or ' " -L on, stu. lv, dna oubl i^at lon of

r i , . l l l r rnry her i tage of the peoplee of Cent la1 Asia ad nelgh-

r,,' l 'rr ..lntrics in o!de! to shos their contlibution to eorld

lv l l l . , r t t .n . r t th is div is ion's disposal is one of the lar-

r..r !rl .l.hcst franusclipt collections in the Sdiet Union- At

time, ti€ colle.tion's holdinqs nunber sme 17,000rr r , , , tn. ludinq uor*s in Arabic, Pels ian, Taj ik, ad the Tut-

r'l, l nrNn(r..r. the holdinqs are cohltnua11y incteasing fo!,r.qarding archives, the ilstttute is pelmitted !o

f 'rr

i nl 1,,. pnlrlicly ]1eld manusciipt collecttons, to bling tor id LL-r ' r ( r , l l .c t ions f loh othe! pal ts of Uzbekista as wel l as

! , r . r , ' l r ! minuscr ipts held by pl ivate indiv iauals, fhe inst i -r , r i ! , r f l , . ,L out an annual erpedi t ion" to locate and acqui le

er....r"'ii) r""t uzbekskoi ssR, Nauka v

' r f ls , r ( l i ,1 , r \ , t , t . 2, 'obsliche,itwennye Nauki', Tashkent 1974,

Ddrt o l L l - l iwis ion's !e-pon"ibj l ' ty '6 thc r 'b l i^acion o_a catalog of the collection, the first volme of vhich appealedin 1o,2. / Tr ta 7, r tc FtevFnr! \o-u" Has ! .b1.54d, .6rrptcLird

the cataloqinq of approxinately one-third of the titles in th€collection. (The catalog has cone under .riti.ism for its con-

o l lc . rn la l ion. . . rL LrrdL r^r ' ti . s .v.+a_ .opJe5 nay be .dtatogue a. nany cr, .5 - d

__elert

volumes of the catalog.)

Tl ie n.n ' s ' - ip. _o- l -ct jo i js lar t ' .u lar ly roL-uo-- ly

_o!

its historical mate!ials - chlonicles, bioqraphies, seoglaplries-peltaining to Central-Asia i, the sixteenth, seventeenth, andeiqhteenth centuries-z

Besides the nanusclipt booLs, the institute also hous.s acollection of apploximately three tholsand chan.ery a.d contrac-tual docments. although a twenty-year o1d article rcfels toLhe i t r ' InFrL -o-rplc l ron or .1-s- .o L c,L. , iL l . ri t ha. noc yeL bccn

_;r jshed or :s s inpl /

fetence for the .lrator of the manuscript fu.d, Xuw@eddin Mu-ni lov u6rtd r6L \ . - i !

. to- . -7, .6qL6 | Lo

use the doctrments down on the qiounds that a recentmowe had disaranqed th. nateriats to such an extent that loca-tins individual 4q1e (fiI€s) was not possible. a senelaI ideaof the range of these docuents, whict date from the 15tn to the20th centulies, nay be found in the worl<s of o. D. chekhovich,n" A. navidovich, N. IU. Iu1dashev, and a. M. li{ukhtarov,

\ror9 tn- m.!- ploninent leqealchers

Abdullaev, ^rsnatullar

Arabic. Persian and Uzlrel< literatule.Matveevskaia. calina lav1owna, nediewal Muslim mathehatics.Azindzhaova, seitrahat Azimdzhanovnar Mushal histofy.Arends, alfled xallovichr persian lit€rature (d emeritus scho-

ld nd.)AJdEedow, Dori Al<bhedovich, C. asia! History w-rffrrr centuries.

va!at rbou ddtowicr i A '91-Jnis lJ ' ,

. . A- i" ia \ -xlxth cent!ry.

Bu1gaLov, pavel ceorgiawi.h; Arabtc llterature, Birlni specialiet.

2. ltle ihstltlte holds such unica as Rawdat al-ridwan (bioqfa-phtes of t]1e 16th century Juybali shaykhs), rnd ouli-naah(a defective velse cnronicle of tte eally 17th century) i the

i-d lukn o - t \ " BaSr al-asrar / t , - , is tor i -s oIthe chaghaiay and shibantd ltnes);;the Tarikh-i shibani Klran...{a late 17th century htstory of 3a1kh by an eyewitness observe!)-o, mor- comlere der.its s-- B-"o-. storcy,

"--sis44a=r-telatura pp- 1104-120a (c€ntra1 asian Eistoly) .

o. D" caekhovich/ 'Bukharslie Pozem€l'nye Akty x/I-xrx w.Problew rs tochnikovedeni ia , ! .4, 1955, p,225. ' I1 le col lec-t ion oc.ent lat rs ian docjnr l . or Lt6 {rao-1y o, c i6nc-.of the Utbek sS! is in qood order thanks Co tne effolts ofr. Adylov and F. I. Rubinshtein, vho have carlied out a de-La: l rd Invcntory,-scr ipt ion nl

\ r . j 'v | , i ] ] ' j i i .

r r r i r (or , u l ry l iu l L i Isr i j lof ichr Ar i l r ic l i terature, rbn r i i ! .1

: i or ' ^ i . . i . ' - , i , . ,

q. . .rr:nian relations in the xlxth cerlury.

NL,rirl)!, Iruvded.lin Munilovich; cxrator of ms- collection, medieval. , r r ian hi3tory an.] l i terature.

' r' I iir, llikh!i1 Gf isorevich; contemporary afqhanistanPersian anC alalic litelatule (translations of

.r.ni, Ibn sina, r.]rd al-Razzaq at smalqandi)r , i , r )v, I l ias; contenporary hdia pol i t ica.

r , ' r rL l1n.v,

Hmid!11ar Arabic ed persian l i te latule ( t ransla-rion. an.l editions of I1)n sina, Yaqut, Alhad-i lalqhani)

I L r(v, nuhmeddzhan luldashevich; c. asian histoly )rvIIJthrr i xrr th centul ies.

. i r lb- o, l ' ib 'or \ 'o_rprrse< s-verty- f ive !esedrchers! , , ' r i r in th i l leen sectors. the of f ic ia l dtrect ion of p lesent-

. - t

- i - . - - i4L -

, . do, r ,nd :1 L\e fo l -eJng . t . tc_

direction fo! the sork and research oftrr institute is to study tl1e geneial characteristicg,,a the social development of uzbekistan

s -d l isht on r 'c h i_to,y.a the developqent of productive folces and industrialr.lations, t]1€ history of the wolkinq ctass and the

l lect ivc -

a p6cs ' . t ry,

r 'b 5 61ory of the sovi- titrtelliqentsia, lhe history of the Great.i.rlist Revolution and the Patriotic wat (wo!1d r'ra! L

' bekr" t -n, the ni . tory o 5d rc lEnE-Latron of

" , - enini t n.r ion l oolr- i -s o ' r le comunist Pafty,

' ' . \ '6rory o_ thc d-v6lopn-nt o3 Lhe ,r le.d. l ib and'o \a- ly.oopalar jon ol t rc ! b-n paopl- wirh thF

l)uilding of socialism aid comnism, the history ofIrzbekistan in the cleat Fatriotic Far (wolrd lrar rI).the rise and development of the cities of uzpekistan.nnil the histoly of the historical sciences. -

11re thirteen divided along the abde ltnes- rti,llnrl.l be noted that theoletically at least t]le pudtds of thelr|ititltcs of history ad ortentalisn ale kept distirct by nodelni ! , l i t i .a1 rroundal ies - the study ourside the soviet

lion rrcilq limited to rhe hstitute of olientatisn, the study of| ! histoFl of the alea wthin the presenr-day rroratels of thei I r rn iu ' iodi- t jo i or r l - inst i tutc o- 5i !1ory. s ince rher,', r .wiet and ple-Russian p€riods ale nor so convenienrly dt-

.1. nii-. 1i=t w:l*o.piled *fth the assistance of the Executive

. t , t^ 6- tv6nn6 \_uLi , o! . c j t , , pp. 131_4.

vlr l r )1 i . , 1 l ! r vo.r or l is tor i . l l r of th. : post-Mon. lo1, f imrr id, shi-r)rnid, rnd

^srrtaikhanid (rrsnay-fiNrid) periods tends to ignore

sD.t, dlvisions so that th€ of sclotars at hothinstitutes tends to ovellap far more than the researcrr statenents

Ahong the more plomineht 6ch61ars of the pre-modern peliod

?-dy!ova, adzlu ^aov-orr .

Aoo-- id, fa! - d, f -n id i - tory.hekhowich, ()1 'da Dr icraav,- . . . A i -n

--- \ i / - , cconor ic

history of the xvlth-xlxth centurteb-lunin/ Bolis vladinirovich; c. Asid cultural tristory, biblio-

qlaphy, histofioqraphy of central rsia-Mukninova, Razita Galievna; c. Asian history ]nrth and nTrth ceh-

on the basis of recent publi.ations, th€ rnstitlte of Hi-story i5 mailly concehed uith rh€ htstory of tle posr-Rew61u-ttonar:r period. The themes of the published nar€ria1 lean heavi-ly to such topics as the .building of the soctalist state, refu-tatio! of tne falsifiels of the history of central Asia. history,and the stualy of the Comuniet Fdtyi . The second nost inportantfield ts that of the Russiab annexation of cenrral Asia. Thetheme lou being pursued is ,the prosr€ssiwe narure of the ann€xa

other in.titutes of the AcadeN of sciences

At least two other institutes with which the author had nodirect contact but uhtcn nig]1t prove of interest to o!he! scho-lds ale the Instttute of idguaqe and rrtteratlre which sharesa building eith the Institute of History. and the rneritlte ofPhilosophy ad 1aw, locat€d on UIftsa sutatnarovoi. accordinqto one oa th. .Lr io- - l lows uodi ino ac L]-lesealch on Isl4ic 1& and phitosophy is being calried out there.

Ta6hkent state Univelsitv nded Lenin (Tashcu)

the center for the traininq of ortentalists is the raculty ofOliental Laquages, Tashcu. ttle Facllty of rristory as well t.-clude. sectors devoted to the study of Uzbekistan as uel1 as scho-lars in othe! sectols {Sector 6f the History of the LrssR, fo!pRdlple) uhose M !-searcl : r larFsts l ie in pro-so i - t U bek

?he 1iblary hotdings of TashGU are excellent in t]1e fieldof c. Asia! history" Alonq with published rorl<s and serials(itscollection of journals from the 1920s and 30s is the n66t con-plete of ay library in T.)* the liblary also Ms a snal1 nanuscltpt collection of sone 1s0 works, (fte cataloq contains 140

-ntr ias,5@ever ,ara,al ls arp ^. t . too-d a . ra9r- - r f , iFs,whlle copies of the sde uork are list€d saparately,)"

A.A, Serenov, ' pes-! i l t ive c ta lodu- o- L\- o-rs a-, A. ib ic.

and tur l ls ! Mduscr 'pLs prFsFtuod i r l ! " o-arv o v id l -asiat i^ sL.ra un vars Lv, -a. l (cnf , 193 .T d ind€bt€d fo! infomtion matked uith an asterisk towi1lid ri€man of Hdvud university--16-

. th. , r ,u i l , r inq s.r i .nslw !1rk, . r , r l ,yov.rloi.linq lr'irlr l)oohs. nov-aa to rariour locil

but t]l€ date or the re openin.i oa tne library

Navoi' ^11ei:

Paradow

The Nav.i l,ibrary is an indispensahle resource for the scho-1ax of central Asian history and civ i l i 'a t ion, rhe holdirq€ ofthe lihrary are stated to Le hore than ten million votumes.r1ris fiqnr. inclndcs boots, phphlets, and separately bound a!-ticles rhtch lnder soviet .ata1o9!ing plocedules ale independently

of Rlssian an.t Uzlek naterif,ls, Ih another location is a specialcataloq nhich lists Uzbek boolrs printed before 1940, i.e- Uzhekboolrs print.d in either Atarric or Latin scrilt. (After 1940,uzb€lr was printed in cYri11ic.)

Rare Books of the Navoi library has only a niniscule ald uninpor-tant col lect ion of manlscl ipts. r ls col lect ion of Navoiana wasremoveil to the Navoi ttlseln of riterature. accordinc to the sa€

for the historian of central asia, the Rare BooksDepartTent has trro trhiqre vorks, the five hundled and ninety-onevolwe Turk€stoskii Srrornih (Trrkestan collection) and the im-po rJnt jour4. l I oo" io l , r \ -s . ! . o v.do-o L ,t. rhich such noted orierl:alists as larthold ard Viatkin reqularlycontributed- rh" !]lgelcnE4 j_-g!gIgi! is a unique, unpulrlishedfile of articl€s publislred in Russian ad other turopean journals

about centlat Asia. The first and sixteen volmesof the vork uere cohpiled by \7. I. !re^ov. vho also compiled aninacx in three volmes./ the last one hundred ard sewenty-fiwevolumes uere partly conpiled by Mezhov and partly by o.V. Maslow,{ho added an index to this last part of the imense volk,a Forth. c:arist period and as a nearly complete reference soulce toEuropear historioqraphy on cehtral Asia, the Ttrkestanskti sbor-

schola! lrt must ltre used in Tashkent. The policy of the Navoilibrary is not to al1ow any microfilninq ot photocopying of the{o!k, accordinc to a librarian there-

Si L.n,r i r - . r ' - | a/bl-r ,vF u(a/ . t - .o^t i_nemi i statvei. na iusslrom i .1!.qs-!!.eliey\L !a?Y!atr, 3 vors,

r ' oc- k-rr lI las1ov, o.v. , s istmet icheski i ukazatebk t t . 41?-59}.!!49!!3qq!9S9 !!9!4!!. rashkent, 1940.

cr-n- 0| l , . .do/, r 'L 0,{ 1d'r : - r - - r+| I i . | ' 1, o -- \ ' \ ' .o

flre author ha.l no occa3ion to us. €ither ot: tlese tro institltions ulrich are of more ihportance to students of the historyof central asia in ijE gost-fewolutionary period. rhe rundmertalt ib!- !w of t l - dr . r - .v o r i r . , . r t i pts to o.p-e r .L r . . . - ,Flan duol , . tc L_c lo ld i ros o |

- ! .voi ibr-- , - o o:19 to

infomation providad by one of the libralians there. sin.e theIlndmental Liblaly is located hear the ravoi ribraly it may lreeasily leferred to ehen materials alpear not to be in the Navoi's

The rnizhnac patata is an olficial book depositofy. By1ae one copy of every publication appearinq ir Uzbekistan frust

i r t r r - Boo' adiS-r . LL i . ,oL, s. , i - -y -o- \ . rs,a place fo! lesearch. It has no reading roon or tacilities forresealch and wolk there fray ]re done only al:te! obtainins pehis-sion from the comittee for Pfess affails ((onitet po delan p€-

scholars have been pehitted ac--ss there h6(ew!r.

I4useum of the Histon of the peoples of uzbekistan need ,lrbek

r11. qvbbq , b lo . , | .u. - ! r

j " ou.c- o i r -o- . ._tio! on th€ naterial culture of centla1 asia, Its cotlectionsinclude som€ fifty-two thousand archaeoloqical specinens, forty-three thousand coins, medals, and seals, and nore tnan on4 hnnd!-d thou"cnd photoqrap! , T - oo Lments of tle oliel oeriod h-ve oeen cDutr l ished._- L . o - co oc:n o. .c. . io LLF p otofile (fototeka) hd.wer or to the ple-soviet do.nmentary naterials,other than those on ea.positlon, If those (a fat'a of 995/1587isstred o! th€ eve of the shibaniil Harrt and nmerous19th century photogrf,phs of alchitectuxal honun€.ts sirce destloyedby rat l ra l o-1-. t :on:" r icn

jnoecd ard ao pF, , .1- to th- ' r .Lof ia, , 5.

chaeoloqist, o! anthropoloqtst.

'nsr i rute oI oEL qi-Lorv { Inbr i t l r rs iussrr . /h:r l ; r M "

. r -of culture. A1leia Paradov

Anothe! iiportabt source for the material cultur€ of centralAsia. The institute fraiitains a photo file and a ii1€ of record-ings of central asian nusi..** Too !,rominert scholars uorlrin,lat the institute are calina liatolena rugachenkova ahd tazarIsratlowich Rempel qho have collabofated on a nunbe! of (orks oncentfal Asian art,

9. Sokrovishchni tsa rstor i i uzbekistana, rashr€rr 1970, p. 1Ol . . ov-, .v. ..-_!q, !a] 14:r3tj pg L f i_

@stana, Tashkent, 19?3. Accordinq to the compiter the nuse_m nas more than 12,ooo documents coverins events fron tne19tn centlry onwa!.i.Information provide.l by Theodor-- r,evin of pxinc.ton univcr

!rrrr!!r ,1!!l tlvlrr_ o,l !/!!!!!144g"tr ' ' s tv nav . * \1r i (co nr){ l , ivr fom-- ly t \c ' .n-- . I t

' }IJi.torical Archivcs of the Uzbek ssR.

Pr_\a! 15- 'ng_e ! '_hest \ ' -Lor iaa o . -n

tral Asia are the state alchives, the Gosarkhiw. fhe nmbei ofdocuqents fron the pre-Soviet period is uncertaln but nust lre

11un_!-d thou"-nd. _n an a!c i . rE pibt letad I10 ,oD chekhovich estimated the docunents in two of the fondv (rond

of the adninistration of th€ Bulr]1aran air's qushbegi - Fondup.d l r . i i . \ , Sbcsr Bul tar .kogo k\Er€Lva and L!6 col lA^Lion osaqf dogyments - sobranie vakufnykh dokmentov) at nore than43,000." A,aother source estinated the nmber 6f do.wents inthe l9!g of the saarqand Reqtdnal Adninistration at 6,000 do-

there ale at teast two othe! conpararrle fonds, therarshanah and sy! !a!ya Regional Ailrinistratton f6nds.

lhe documents ale in Persian, uzbek, and Russtd. Many ofthe uaqf-neahs for exaliple were translated ihto Russian and de-posited in tne archives vhen the Rlssian ail{inistration of 1\rr-kestan revieued all waqf holdinqs in the leao's. There existsno 5inqlc cdi . oc . Lrolg1 .Ftd l -d "op: i " do.:tst for at least some of the &41s, Tt?ical1y an opis entlysi11 contain the numltre! of the docunent and the nmbe! of itsf i le (de1o), a br ief charactel izat ion of the docment (e.9. vaqfnanah, vathiqa/ mubalak-namah, etc.), its plovenace, and pelhap€a lrrief descliption of contents, by and to whon tt {as issued

boo{ oa Bu( l - r ra,r2 'as

abl-to mal<e use of the archiwal material thanks to the detailed in-formation provided by 1. diiadylov in his detailed opis' to the

c" fa! -s

th is ul i tcr i . duqJF, thele is only one cataloqof ahy palt of the atchives and that is of the documents flonthe (tokand khanate shich uere 9ligina1ly held in I€ninglad atthe saltykov-Shchedlin l,iblary.'r h 1962, the docunents veletrahsfelled to Tashkent to the archives thele. A cmplete miclo-fih of the docunents lemains in l€ninglad, hoHeve!.

?he plincipal fonds of intelest to the hi3tolian de:fond +17-Sy!-da!inskoe oblastnoe plavlente

1e-Smarkandskoe19-Ferqansloer- -a l<Ly sob-ar j ia vaku,ry\ ! do\bFrLo1{. ) -Uo-E\

_ar ' - . \L . !bno i . , ,

?-Kantselidiia lhiwinskoqo *hana

l ' . o.D, ne'howich, Bukndlskie oozemelnye rnry. . . , op, c i t . ,p.224.

12. slkhareva, o"D., (vartalinaia obshchina Pozdnefeo.lalr

99E4e_,!!!bBqa, Moscow, 19?6, esp. p.4.13. Troitskaia, A.I!., Xatatoq alkhiva kokandskvkh khanov xlx

yl ' MoscoH' 1964'

,^ nuhb.:r of s.holarsr4 have bequn to study and plblish do.!mcnts arom these ar.hives and a qen.ral i.l€a of the kinds of i!fo!fratlon contained tn thesc afchiwes may be founil in their

Dlrshanbe

The capital of the Tajik sovtet socialist Republic is tnehome of institutes and institutions paralleling those found i.

author worked only one week ih Dushanbe and rhe

Institute of oxientaltsh, A.adenry of sciences, Tadzh. sSR,

P. r-bL tLr- o o. i -nt- l i -m in D!s\ . rb- . d . - l r t iwety

lecent phenonenor, b€inq founded in 1970, H@ever, since 1956a "departhent of oiientalism and t*erary heritaqe" existed !n-der the Presidium of the Acadeny of scierc€s-15

r i56 , r r+Lt6 'ds

app-oxiraEe_y o-Ly ?c 6orc,crs, d i . idEd,as in Tasl*ent, into tvo plin.ipa1 divisions: Division of rheHistory, ncoroni€s and c\rltules of th€ (nor-soviet) olient andth€ Division of the Scholarly Description and Publicatton of theOliental Manuscripts. fhe institute possesses a collection ofmanusclipts mmberihg about tuelwe thousand voluhes. (This w!i-t - r ua€ lnal le to

_ rd ol i ov ary s-pd.dt- uo! \s, or r r r t -s,

\n is ! ia!- !eb!esenE..) ndnu.cl iDl d / : onis in ttle process now of pubtishing a tutti-voluned cataloq ofthe collection. Begln in 1960 under the editorship of the lateorv. v i f loa, r1- c, tdtod iq nou bubr i611cd ,r ,x o. i t - Dro_jected ten vo1@es.'" Accordinq to leports, the .ollection ofnauscrtpts, now located in the institute buildinq i3 to be novedto the Presidtum ribrary, Tadznik academy of sciences.

fhe institute also has in tts holdings a colle.tion of soneftve thousand lithoglaphed books. ror both the manusclipt andlithograph collections there. ts a title-autho! cald fl1e for theentire collection, leqald1ess of vhether the uork has been pub-11shed in the institute's catalog.

t1le institute in Dtlshanbe has a sector of s.holars doins.16 l is to-y o. t le ^ul tu lE ard so' ia ' . oLS,t o-

the p€op1es of the Panirs, in.ealticular remailisn and its cha-

14. Including o.D- chekhovich, E.A. Davidowich, p.p. rvanov,r.G. Mulnrircva, A.iG. rcreraew, dd A. tilukhtalov.radzhikskaia sovierskaii sotsialisticheskai; Respubrlka,Dushanbe, 1974. p.244,

16. Milzoev, A.M. et, a1-, fiataloq vostoLhnykh RpkoFisei Ak.Nauk, Tadzl, ssR, 1960. r'he present culato! of th. ns,collection, Airi Yazdan Alirardanov, indicated that ev€ntu-ally a five volume Arabic hs. cataloq uould also appea!.

17. Tadzh. Sov, Soc. Res., op. ct t . , p.24A.

Instttute of Iristotv n4€d A. L\.nish

This inst i tute nolds part of the pelsonal col lect ion offr.nus.fipts uhicn belonscd The .ollectiob isqL Lc n ' l l , . 'o ldrnd to rFoo'1. l abFr ind fou tcF ot i Lecr

b, L _ontdin5 i - dppatcr l ly uniole dnd, ror l rc

.6v^nEcen c-n' IL-y 11rsto!v o '6a' "1 Asi . , i rvaluabls^wo k,

sLo:an-oul i n;n"t o \ur ] f fad . -1;4 s iy;rgirdT Bal lh1, 'o Beccuqeof the ilrness of the culato! of this collection, the wliter

'asunabfe to see the collection.

rirdausi star€ Lthralv of the Tadzlik ssR

Another collectio! of {anuscrtpts ts kept in the state I,i-h!a!y. rhe cataloquinq of this collectton ha6 only recently be-gun. l}re size of t]le collection is ut*no!r4 to this {!ite! butnunlcels perhaps one thousand volwes (?).'? the ftrst volme oftbe catalog of the Perstah-Tajtk nduscrtpts tn the cdllecttonelists only one hundred and thtrty-tf,ro separate tttles.zu

@

one of the nost important soulces of histolica1 matelialsin central Asia is t]1e sealqand has an uncatalogued(bu! indexed) collecttoh of approxtnately ftve hundreal nanu-.cr ipts. _.oa ol r l r 'a-d f i lF L!Fr. ab-peded to be 1ittle of tnterest to the hlstortan, aslde flom acopy of the lbiquitous TerIl<h-i (Tadhklrah-t) MuqIh (hhI. mefruseum's library has a rare collectto! of sone one thousdd 1i-thosraphed volks flm plesses in Bukhafa, Tashkent, Kazan, andsdarqad as veII as sev€laI litetaty joulnats of the p!e- ddeafIy-ievolutiolary pertod (e,q, Artnah of 1913/1914, ale4gg,al-rslab ad othels). Itle museum also has a "phototeka" withnmelous ea!1y photographs of sdarqand and the slrroultttng re-

But fo! the histoiian of central Asia the frost valuable partof t]1e nuseu('s holdtngs is the cottection of docmenls lanqingf lom - inu_id r t res to t te plesent. Ihc col lect ton ls _ur ly, r '

not always eccu!?te1y, catalogued. in a 6,0 volwe unpublishedinv€ntoly list." The documenlaly collection coRprises appfoxi-

v. vrrr , pp. bu- ldIror excerptsand descliption).

19, n1e estimate based on lbe hiqhest inventory nuhbels in thecataloq (see next note).

20- A- Iunusov/ rekhlasti alastnaviskhoi toiiki - folsii ).itob-l<honai pavlatii Rss ToiiListon ba nmi lJrlldosin liralavsi,l i 'd- i - Drshcnb- lat l , 29b pp. sci t tsar rrr is catalo9, no'lefelences to the Firdawsi library collection are nentlonedin BleEel/storey.

21- uz, cos. Ist. Muzei q. Smdqdda, hventdnaia knioa !u-koipisnvkh dokumentov feodal'no-kolonial'noqo perioda, kniga1, nos. 1-1oo2 kntga 2, nos. 1003-1197 (as of May, 19??)

-22-

-23-

nat€ly 1150 of the 1197 f i les (dela), tbe lest beinq made up,sd€uhat lner.pltcably/ of Oulans, an illustrated ns. (a 97011562Kh sah_i \ tzdt vrrh nrne ntntqtur-s l ,

- -LTbb- o .op1es of

the journal L!!!1, and other ntscellaneous pltnted and ms- ma-

terlal. h qenelal, each file contatns only one docment but afes contain thlee to five doc$ents (pertatning to the sd€ sub-ject l and ln one case (delo

-^44 on v.q ) l !e_a Erp eJdht docu-

hents tn the file.

_ne docu-nts then3el /es cde! a wide spect lum o- t t?-s:lental contracts, sale deeds, govelmental oldels and decrees,uaqf docments, re.erpLs, pet i t ions, legaI deposi t ion-, r" t . l l i -

sen.e !epo!t6, testdent./ judicial decisions, and ta1i6han5,

r1le docl f fnts cme ror rear ly al l Lhe ralo! ctEiee andtMs of plesent-day sovlet centla1 Asia. sukhala, lQriva, ur-

sanj, sdalqad, Payshdlre, remez/ (hojand, (a!shi, ula repe,as well a€ nmerous villages eithtn the legtons of these urban

within " .otrecl lon Lh.ra . -a ar t - .e l -hree 9!o.ps ofdocwents vhich either deal with spectftc institrtions in a givenclty o! tom o! vith a nuber of r€lated ihstitutiols in a qiv€n

ci ty. For Fxdble, - !or Ulqani the!- o le s jxty f iw- f i l -s ordo^M.nt6 deal ing ui th the f indnc-s r incl ld ing udo' 9"2 rr ,salaries, naitenalce expenses, etc.) fo! a sinqle nosque in thecity- I'he docments date fron 1256l1s40 to 1340/1921. For thesae period i. Urganj th€re are a dozen o! so othe! files of do-dnents coverinq the period 1a77-191o shich deal with th€ waqfproperties of a single nosque. For the social and €cononic historyof t'he late pre-rewolutiobary period su.h (at€ria1s are of course

lor edlter tlies, the docmentary mateliaI is less exten-sIve, although there is one intelesting group of docunents per-

talning to the aAnlnlstlation of a shline and its propetties inthe timEn {dktlict) of Yelkat. an a&rilistlative subalivisionof t]re sdarqand wtlayat, whtch dates to the seventeenth century.(rbe ealliest docuent ts dated 1019/1609-10 and the latest tllal1706-7.)

As fa! as this wrtter knog9, onty one docrment flom the col-lection, a Titurid waqf-neah __ has been pulrlished.

The rusem was to have moved to a new building t€side theRlgleta in the fa1l of 1977. Mer'bels of the staff inaticatedthat the factltttes fo! lesealch and wolk at the museun would benuc]l inproved after the n@e.

22. Crhekhovich, O.D. "vaLufny dokwent vreneni TiNra,,.",

Bukhara

@

A..ordinq to infomation provided intion fron Prof. o.t. chekhovich as He11 is in an arttcle of helsdealihq sith archival lesources, the lrukharah Library pdssessesa r-sp. . table ranu<_l ipt dn :o . dou. 6r, L ledr-c^co- o_ E!)c nu-- ! r in dn. - . o --p, .

rd -rq 'EsLs aeselLcdthat successive comissions fron Tashl.ent had rehoved alt thedocur-rLdy neEeriol do n- ly

T. . -J ' r ipt col le t ion, -pp

ox '

iv r rLw olDr 's, in-clrded little of interest aside fron tuo 19th.cntury nanusclipts,ohe (+466) a uzbek histoly in ss folios of larqhdah for the(ost part 19th..htury heclotogies and dat€s of buitdiaqs ih rGtr-qra. r o r ioca uiLh . lery br i - -

'1 fo-y o t l - - ) r io\s,

inds, Abbasids, sdanids, and satjuqs. rlre titl€ of the tork isqiren as Xhullas nl-tawErikh and its a!!hor, ualnqd tlakim Yay-fEni (?) ibn DE{u1lE sh6dl uuhmad FarghEnt. The second workof intelest h the .ollection (+465) is a conpendiun if inshE 6fAnir Nasr allah vho rqled Bukhara from 1a27 to 1460. one is acopy of a lette! to shah Talmas! fron the pEdshah-i BlkhErei",three othels are lexts dealing tith the rental of waqf plopertybelonqihg to valious institutions ih Brkhara.

n1e rest of the manuscript collection conprises well-kndnPelsian and Arabic rof,ke. The possibility should not be ruledout t]1 t the collection there is mote extensive rhan the dllecto!of the tibrary uas wilting to adnit at the tlie, Perhaps futule4

'o. ts k t l in uncov-. ing 1- or iar ta l is tthis institution.

pukharan uusem, rhe Atg

xtle Bukharan rlusem nas a sfrall collection. The museun it-sclf is ruch 3ma11e! than the sMarqed lluseum vhich in tutn isconsiderably 3na11e! than the Tashkenr Histori.al Musew. Inthc holdings of the ple-!€volutionary sector of rhe sukharan uu-s.um wefc coins, household objects, nauscrtpts, documents/ and

Lh r - ! t j

dct . . Acco..J ins Lo Lqc dir-cto! o- t ]1e pr-- -volu-tlon.ry sector, the entire holdinss of the secto! uere cataloguedin nn inventory entitled "Temattko-ekspozitsiomy plan otdelai,,torii qotevolutsionnogo proshlogo Dukhary 6 xvT veka do veli-koi orrtiarrfskoi sotsialisticheskoi revolutsii" dd dated 1976.'rli. nanus.ripts listed therein included Ourans, lrabtc qramals,

outsj.de th€so institrtions, the city of lukhaia, like sea!-

" , r rs- l r

" r icr "- o r .c. r r - . r ty retdin. t la a-^hiLF'-

r i r . , \1 ' , . r - L , . - l - \ - ^) Lrrs i \ - bL' ld ing plojects o t l - s"-thc 16th and airst half of th€ seventeenth centuries

,!.,v,. iL" trny of thc smallex madrasahs bnilt durinq

n,ry r t i l l ln. lo.nt . , l throuqh th. usc of sukhnr.vn's, .s! r jJ , r ion or ur.- c i ry.2: l

r .n i , r , r i , l l , r i , r , , , l r ! . I t r ' , 'wiy

toulist busses go, ar€ fallinq to rnin. 1\ro note{olthv €xamples,

donq many, is th€ naittasab b!i1t ih the 15th century bv l(ltaiah

Kdlan &wajan ,tuybali dd the mosque (its intact part ptesentlv

used as a cotion battinq valehouse) vhich faces it in the section

oI Ehe ^ i tv cdl 'ed ivbE!. \1ot 6 ' rs t d iadni 'cnE n'drd - l

ioair i . LhF lo-cdl iFd nadrasq\- 4 'd i - lhan dna El ' rat '_

.'"at."+-r 'n"a"lr"n rcran, lroth late sixt€enth c€ntulv buildinqs'

cnrtside the city are the inplessive conpletes of Olahar

Bakr, the Baha a1-Di; Naqshband complea, and Favdalrad - all

16th century conpositions and all n@ ln sad tepatr'

permission to see these pLaces Nst be obtailea fto( tre

Ailninistration of c\1tnre (tbravlenie kultury) located in the

Don sovetow, telephone luibe! 4-2f-a5- In 1977, lhe dire'to!

rtis discussion l1as delilreralelv awoided the sulrject of re-

search conditions. I'he best that can be said is tltt conditions

varv l lon in. l iv :oJ1l to 'noiv dual , o 'ocndi ' o bot l

" ' Lrr"

"-"** , Lop'c, on t lc nst i tut ion or _\e p 'oole o F en

..""a."", ""a

on the pergonalitv and connections of the lesearch-

er. Pholodupucation of materials is qenerallv difficult lrut'

at least tn il '" "*" "t

microfilhins, not inpossibl€' Access to

@telials, as indicat€il in the introduction. requires p!e1imi_

n:s work with no q-oalante. of ultihate success' Havilq said

tl'ui, it l" impoltat to stress {hat should be olrviols lrv n@ -

!l1at Centla1 asia is an inPoltant research center fo! Islmic/

Near lastern studies generallv ard essential for the studv of

central Asian history anat civilization, in palti'ular'