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362 Index<br />

constitution, Soviet, 283<br />

cotton, 8, 235, 252<br />

Dahbid or Dahpid, shrine of the Naqshbandi<br />

shaykh Khwaja Ahmad Kasani near<br />

Samarkand, 159<br />

Dalai-lama, 168–9<br />

Dandanqan, site of Seljukid victory over the<br />

Ghaznavids, 93<br />

Dari, term for Farsi (Persian) in its formative<br />

stage, 32, 74<br />

darugha, darughachi, Mongol term for governor<br />

or tax-collector, 113<br />

Dasht-i Kipchak, 2, 28, 161<br />

Dayan Khan, Chenghisid khan in Mongolia,<br />

167<br />

desert, 1, 14–15<br />

Dimitriy Donskoy, prince of Moscow, victor<br />

over the Mongols, 121<br />

Directorate of Muslims of Central Asia and<br />

Kazakhstan, 230<br />

Diwan lughat al-Turk, 87–91<br />

dobrovolnoe prisoedinenie, “voluntary unification<br />

[with Russia],” doctrine of, 284–5<br />

Dolon Nor, site of Mongol acceptance of<br />

Manchu suzerainty, 171<br />

Donish, Ahmad, Bukharan scholar and civil<br />

servant, 241<br />

Dukchi Ishon, leader of a native uprising<br />

against Tsarist rule, 207<br />

Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, 12; called<br />

Stalinabad between 1936 and 1961<br />

Eastern Turkestan see Sinkiang<br />

Elista, capital of Kalmykia, viii, xi<br />

Erdeniz Zu, Buddhist monastery at<br />

Qaraqorum, 19, 299<br />

Erk, Uzbek political party, 304<br />

Esen Buqa II, Chaghatayid ruler of<br />

Moghulistan, 141<br />

Farab, a site near the Syr Darya, birthplace of<br />

al-Farabi, 25<br />

Farabi, an Islamic philosopher and philologist,<br />

25<br />

Fathabad, a Kubraviya dervish lodge near<br />

Bukhara, 119<br />

Fayzabad, administrative center of Afghan<br />

Badakhshan, 13<br />

Fergana, 9–10<br />

Firuzkuh, mountains in northern Afghanistan,<br />

10<br />

Fitrat, Abdarrauf, Bukharan and Uzbek<br />

author, scholar, and public figure, 206,<br />

222<br />

French North Africa, compared with Russian<br />

Central Asia, 200, 284<br />

Frunze (city), name of Bishkek under Soviet<br />

rule, 24, 233–4<br />

Galdan, khan of Jungaria, 170–1<br />

Galdan Tsereng, khan of Jungaria, 172<br />

Gandan, Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar,<br />

299<br />

Garmo, a mountain in Tajikistan, as “Pik<br />

Kommunizma” the highest mountain of<br />

the former Soviet empire, 15<br />

gas, natural, 286–7, 293<br />

Gaspirali, Ismail Beg or Gasprinskiy, 207<br />

Genghis Khan, 7, 19, 104–5<br />

Genghisids, 320<br />

ghazi, Muslims fighting the jihad (holy war), 25<br />

Ghaznavids, 96–8, 318<br />

Gijduvani, Abd al-Khaliq, a sufi shaykh, 138<br />

Girey, a Genghisid prince, with Janibeg laid<br />

the foundations of the Kazakh<br />

nationality,146<br />

glasnost, “openness,” freedom of expression<br />

introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 8,<br />

259, 303, 311<br />

Gobi, 2, 16, 18, 20<br />

Gök-tepe, southern Turkmenistan, site of two<br />

memorable battles between the<br />

Turkmens and Tsarist troops, 312<br />

Golden Horde, 28, 322–3 ; see also Batuids;<br />

Dasht-i Kipchak<br />

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 253, 256–7, 260, 303–4<br />

Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region, x, xi, 21;<br />

Gorno-Altaisk, the capital<br />

goskhoz, Mongol version of the sovkhoz (state<br />

farm), 300<br />

Great Seljuks see Seljukids<br />

Grousset, René, 3, 343, 349<br />

Gunt, a river in Badakhshan, 13<br />

Güyük, Genghis Khan’s grandson and second<br />

successor, 109<br />

Hafiz-i Tanish Bukhari, author of Abdallah<br />

II’s biography Sharafname-i Shahi, 178<br />

Hami or Qomul, a city in southern Sinkiang<br />

on the Silk Road, 2, 16, 52, 165<br />

Hamzaabad, Uzbek enclave in southern<br />

Kyrgyzstan, site of a Muslim and<br />

Bolshevik shrine, 247<br />

Han (ethnic Chinese), 274<br />

Hangai, mountains in Mongolia, 1, 18<br />

Haydar Mirza, author of the Tarikh-i Rashidi,<br />

116, 161<br />

Hazrat-i Turkistan, nickname of Khwaja<br />

Ahmad Yasavi, 26

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