“Literate people, it is your duty to teach those who are illiterate!”, Turkestan State Publishing House 1920s. “Грамотный, твой долг обучать неграмотных!,” Russian Perspectives on Islam, accessed September 14, 2021, islamperspectives.org/rpi/items/show/9941

Are you hooked on the history of Central Eurasia? Do you want to know more about Muslims under Tsarist and Communist rule? Would you like to share with us the stories behind your research and reflect on your fieldwork or teaching experience? Then this is the place for you! In this blog we’ll uncover the galaxy of voices from Central Eurasian archives, raise awareness about the significance of Muslim communities in Russian, Soviet and Chinese history, and bring the study of Islam in the successor countries to the USSR and in the PRC into conversation with global history.

Convert, Victim, or Impostor? Making Sense of a Colonial Report
Renegades of the Caucasus: Cultural Brokers and Agents of Empire (1500-1850)
“We don’t care about the Parthenon!”: Passion for the Government House in Tashkent in the 1940s
Modeling Motherhood in O‘tkir Hoshimov’s Dunyoning ishlari (“Earthly Things”): The Soviet Memoir of Childhood and its Transformations in Central Asia
Message in a Thermos, or Story of a Contrarian in Socialist Dagestan
“There Is, After All, Something Erotic About What Is Happening on the Borders of Our Empire:” an Essay
How Central Asianists Adopted An Ottomanist, And What Came Out Of It: A Reflection
“Qazaq Princess” on Russian Throne: Catherine II’s “Tale of Khlor” and its Literary Spin-offs
Who Speaks for the Bukharan Jews?
Hunting for Manuscripts in Daghestan