In Remembrance of the Saints : : The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Brophy, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2021
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: Translations from the Asian Classics
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource :; 3 b&w maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; In Remembrance of the Saints --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS
• सारांश: In the first half of the eighteenth century, members of the Naqshbandi Sufi dynasty vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an opportunity to assert their independence in the oasis cities of Kashgar and Yarkand. Others sided with the armies of the Qing dynasty, which were massing on the frontiers to invade. The ensuing conflict saw the region incorporated into the expanding Qing imperium.Three decades afterward, Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari was commissioned to write an account of these Naqshbandi Sufis and their downfall. Blending the genres of collective biography and historical epic, mixing prose and verse, Kashghari’s text vividly depicts religious and political conflicts on the eve of the Qing conquest. It became the most popular and influential Chaghatay-language work to grapple with this divisive period. This volume presents the complete, long recension of In Remembrance of the Saints, translated for the first time into any language and extensively annotated with reference to both Islamic and Qing sources. The introduction situates the work in the Inner Asian tradition of Sufi biography and discusses the political factors shaping historical memory in Qianlong-era Xinjiang. Providing a rare local perspective on China’s expansion into Muslim borderlands, this translation sheds light on Xinjiang’s political and religious traditions and makes a foundational work of Inner Asian literature available to students and scholars.
• स्वरूप: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• आईएसबीएन: 9780231552523; 9783110739077; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754124; 9783110753899
• डिजिटल ऑब्जेक्ट पहचानकर्ता: 10.7312/kash19818
• अभिगमन: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

In the first half of the eighteenth century, members of the Naqshbandi Sufi dynasty vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an opportunity to assert their independence in the oasis citi...