Dr.

Ulfatbek Abdurasulov

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+43 1 51581-6515

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ulfatbek.abdurasulov(at)oeaw.ac.at

Biographie

Ulfat Abdurasulov is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is leading the independent project Central Asia in Russian Diplomatic Archives (17th–19th Centuries), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). From 2014 to 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the FWF-funded START Project Seeing Like an Archive: Documents and Forms of Governance in Islamic Central Asia (18th–19th Centuries).

Previously, Dr. Abdurasulov was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Uzbek Academy of Sciences (2000–2014), where he completed his PhD in History in 2008. From 2011 to 2014, he was a Research Fellow in the VolkswagenStiftung project The Archives Talk.

His research interests include Islamic Central Asia, diplomatic history, and the history of archives and knowledge production in Central Eurasia during the Early Modern and Modern Eras.

 

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Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Islamic Central Asia (18th – Early 20th Centuries);
  • Imperial and Colonial Studies;
  • Islamic Justice, Conflict Resolution,
  • Oriental Studies in Soviet Uzbekistan

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Monographs

  • Notes in the Present State of the Khanate of Khiva by the Head of the Amu-Darya Department Colonel Nil Lykoshin, 1912. Edited, Translated and Annotated by Ulfat Abdurasulov (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2024).
  • Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva (19th-early 20th Centuries) (Brill: Leiden-Boston, 2020) (co-authored with Paolo Sartori).

 

Articles and chapters in edited volumes (selected)

  • “Soft Power of Empire: Muscovy’s Turkic Engagement with the Persinate World” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 1 (2025): forthcoming.
  •  “Papering Over a Diplomatic Gulf: Bureaucracy and Translation between Early Modern Central Asian and Muscovite Courts." In Abbas Amanat, Kevin Gledhill, et al. (eds.), The Caspian World: Connections and Contentions at Modern Eurasian Crossroads (Cornell University Press, 2025), (forthcoming).
  • “Mīrzā Abd al-Rahmān’s Vernacular Ethnography” Journal of Central Asian History 2 (2023): 83–132 (co-authored with Paolo Sartori).
  •  “Advice from a Holy Man. Ishāns in Nineteenth-Century Khwārazm”. In Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori and Devin DeWeese (eds), Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia (Leyden: Brill, 2022), 180–207.
  • “Passage to India: Rhetoric and Diplomacy between Muscovy and Central Asia in 17th Century” Itinerario 3 (2020): 502–527.
  • “Making Sense of Central Asia in Pre-Petrine Russia” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 63/4 (2020): 607–633.
  • “Imperial Strategic Uncertainty: The Promises and Perils of a Russian Protectorate in Central Asia.” In N. Purnaqcheband and F. Saafeld (eds.) “Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte. Beitrage zur tuko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart” (Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden 2019), 233–264 (co-authored with Paolo Sartori)
  • “Konflikt kak resurs: anatomiia 'turkmenskikh besporiadkov' v Khorezme, 1914-1916 gg.“ Ab Imperio 3 (2018): 141–186
  • “The Aral Region and Geopolitical Agenda of the Early Qongrats” Eurasian Studies, 13/1-2 (2017): 3-36.
  • “Take Me to Khiva: Sharīʿa as Governance in the Oasis of Khorezm (19th-Early 20th Centuries)” Islamic Law and Society, 24/1-2 (2017): 20-60  (co-authored with Paolo Sartori).
  • “Ol’ga Chekhovich: Two Facets of a Soviet Academic” Iranian Studies, 48/5, (2015): 785–804.
  • “Atāʾī-Mulk and Yārlīqlī-Mulk: Features of Land Tenure in Khiva”Der Islam 88/2, (2012): 308–323.

 

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