Scholars of Central Asia Book Database

About the Book Database

The Scholars of Central Asia Book Database is intended to showcase the work of scholars from Central Asia.

The entries have been compiled through keyword searches on publishers’ websites, research bibliographies and searches within library collections. The inclusion criteria for the database are the following:

  • Single or multiple author monographs;
  • Works of non-fiction within the social sciences and humanities;
  • Authored or co-authored by at least one person who was born in Central Asia;
  • Published since 1991;
  • Published in any language.

The database includes entries in English, Russian and local languages from Central Asia. Entries appear in reverse chronological order by year of publication.

We update the database on a continuing basis as new work is published and we discover missing entries. This database is far from comprehensive, but it is our hope that the project will grow over time into an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners working on the region.

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No Image Available Central Asia: Nomadic culture – 中亚:马背上的文化
Nomadic culture, together with agricultural and industrial culture, is an important part of the history of human civilization. The number...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity By:Xiang Yingjie
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No Image Available Outline of the History of the Yarkand Khanate – 叶尔羌汗国史纲
Outline of the History of the Yarkand Khanate, a Sunni Muslim Turkic state ruled by the Mongol descendants of Chagatai...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Religion, Uyghur, Xinjiang By:Wei Liangtao
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No Image Available Between the Slogans of Communism and the Laws of Islam:...
Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva reflects on how circumstances have changed for women and feminine activists in independentUzbekistan.
Category: Central Asia, Gender, Uzbekistan By:Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva, Cassandra Balchin
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No Image Available Preliminary compilation of the series on the history and geography...
This book contains the author's articles on the history and geography of the Western Regions and cultural exchanges between China...
Category: Central Asia, Culture, History, Xinjiang By:Zhang Guangda, Rong Xinjiang
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No Image Available The Daughters of Amazons: Voices from Central Asia
The book is an attempt to interpret the meaning of women's lives, to give voice to the female intelligentsia of...
Category: Central Asia, Gender, Uzbekistan By:Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva, Elmira Turgumbekova
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No Image Available Silk Road Culture: the steppes – 丝路文化草原卷
The history of the major countries in Eurasia has a history of exchanges and struggles between farming peoples and nomads....
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, History By:Liu Yingsheng
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No Image Available Silk Road Culture: the sea – 丝路文化.海上卷 Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History By:Liu Yingsheng
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No Image Available Silk Road Culture: the desert – 丝路文化: 沙漠卷
The main display here is the Silk Road from Chang’an to Congling in the Han and Tang Dynasties. It was...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History By:Huang Xinya
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No Image Available Silk Road Culture: Southwest Volume – 丝路文化-西南卷
The development of the Southwest Silk Road is not only earlier than the Northwest Silk Road, but also its magnificent...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History By:Deng Tingliang
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No Image Available Research on the Khoja clans in the Western Regions –...
The study of the Khoja clans in the Western Regions is a book, that makes full use of newly published...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity, Uyghur, Xinjiang By:Liu Zhengyin, Wei Liangtao
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No Image Available Трудный путь к знанию (The Difficult Path to Knowledge)
A narrative about the life of Bahodur Iskandarov, academician of Tajikistan's Academy of Sciences and his explorations of the blind...
Category: Central Asia, Religion, Tajikistan By:B.I. Iskandorov
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No Image Available Турсун Улҷабоев (Tursun Uljaboev)
A biography of Tursun Uljaboev, who was chairman of the Tajik SSR in the 1950s.
Category: Central Asia, History, Tajikistan By:Usmonjon Gafforov
No Image Available Таджикистан на пороге перемен (Tajikistan on the Threshold of Change)
The book covers the country's first decade of independence including the civil war (1992-1997) and peacebuilding.
Category: Central Asia, Politics, Tajikistan By:Saodat Olimova, Muzaffar Olimov
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No Image Available A Study on the Policy of Russian Rule in Central...
This book is divided into four sections. It conducts a comprehensive, systematic and in-depth study on the military and political...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, History, Migration By:Meng Nan
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No Image Available Русско-туркменский исторический словарь, Том 1 (Russian-Turkmen Historical Dictionary, Volume 1)
The first volume of the dictionary is devoted to the theme ‘Who is who?’ The book focuses on untangling ethnonyms,...
Category: Central Asia, History, Turkmenistan By:Shokhrat Kadyrov
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No Image Available Correctly clarify the history of Xinjiang, the history of ethnic...
In order to further strengthen the unity of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang and promote the sustainable and healthy development...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Culture, History, Identity, Religion, Uyghur, Xinjiang By:Tian Weijiang, Chen Chao, Ma Pinyan
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No Image Available Nationalities and Religion Questions in Central Asia 中亚民族与宗教问题
Kyrgyzstan is China's western neighbor and borders the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Kyrgyzstan is located in mountainous areas, with numerous...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, Identity, Kyrgyzstan, Religion, Security By:Chen Lianbi, Liu Gengcen, Wu Hongwei
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No Image Available Этнический атлас Узбекистана (Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan)
The book includes articles on different nationalities and ethnic groups in Uzbekistan today, their ethnogenesis, history of settlement and residency...
Category: Central Asia, Geography, History, Uzbekistan By:Alisher Ilkhamov
No Image Available Точикон дар Қарни Бистум (Tajiks in the Twentieth Century)
In this book, Aiumzod gives his version of the history of the Tajik people from the formation of the Tajik...
Category: Central Asia, History, Tajikistan By:Salimi Aiubzod
No Image Available Центральная Азия на пути интеграции: геополитика, этничность, безопасность (Central Asia...
The book examines the emergence of independent states in Central Asia and the prospects of regionalism.
Category: Central Asia, International Relations, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan By:S. Kushkumbayev
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No Image Available XVII-XVIII esirlerdiki Uyghurlar bilen Junggharlarning munasiwiti (Relations between the Uyghurs...
The book focuses on the history of the Jungghar Khanate and its relations with the Uyghurs.
Category: Central Asia, History, Xinjiang By:Éli Yunusjan
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No Image Available Религиозно-политический экстремизм и терроризм в Центральной Азии: социально-философский анализ (Religious...
This book examines the terrorist threat in Central Asia, including the effects that the War on Terror and invasion of...
Category: Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Religion, Security, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan By:D.N Nazirov
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No Image Available Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan
The author carefully assesses the key issues in Kyrgyzstan's attempt to develop democratic and market-oriented institutions, and to keep militant...
Category: Central Asia, Economics, Kyrgyzstan, Politics By:Rafis Abazov
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No Image Available Foreign Direct Investment in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Politico-Legal Aspects...
In this book E.K.Dosmukhamedov employs a distinctive approach to the study of post-communist transition by analyzing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)...
Category: Central Asia, Economics, International Relations, Kazakhstan By:Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov
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No Image Available Таджикская идентичность и государственное строительство в Таджикистане (Tajik Identity and...
The book analyzes the structure and functions of the Tajik national identity in sociopolitical, cultural, and socio-philosophical contexts in Central...
Category: Central Asia, History, Identity, Tajikistan By:Pulat Shozimov
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No Image Available Выборы И Демократия В Кыргызстане: Конституционный Дизайн Президентско-парламентских Отношении (Elections...
The book, written by a Kyrgyz diplomat, discusses Kyrgyzstan's constitution and how it should be designed to balance parliamentary and...
Category: Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, Law, Politics By:Gulnara Iskakova
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No Image Available Из истории международных отношений Центральной Азии в XVIII веке (The...
The monograph is devoted to the history of international relations in Central Asia in 1795-1856. On the basis of little-studied...
Category: Central Asia, History, International Relations, Xinjiang By:Abdulakhad Khodjayev
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No Image Available Ten Years of Great Changes (Central Asia and Transcaucasia Vol)...
This book introduces the history of Central Asia from 1991 to 2001, focuses on the process and results of the...
Category: Central Asia, Chinese Scholarship, Geopolitics, Transition By:Zhao Changqing
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No Image Available Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan
This study provides a concise overview of the historical development of Turkmenistan. For centuries, the Turkmen tribes were known as...
Category: Central Asia, History, International Relations, Politics, Turkmenistan By:Rafis Abazov
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No Image Available Таджики: вытеснение и ассимиляция (Tajiks: Displacement and Assimilation)
The book focuses on one of the critical and tragic periods in Tajik history at the beginning of the 20th...
Category: Central Asia, History, Tajikistan By:Rahim Masov
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