362 Index constitution, Soviet, 283 cotton, 8, 235, 252 Dahbid or Dahpid, shrine of the Naqshbandi shaykh Khwaja Ahmad Kasani near Samarkand, 159 Dalai-lama, 168–9 Dandanqan, site of Seljukid victory over the Ghaznavids, 93 Dari, term for Farsi (Persian) in its formative stage, 32, 74 darugha, darughachi, Mongol term for governor or tax-collector, 113 Dasht-i Kipchak, 2, 28, 161 Dayan Khan, Chenghisid khan in Mongolia, 167 desert, 1, 14–15 Dimitriy Donskoy, prince of Moscow, victor over the Mongols, 121 Directorate of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 230 Diwan lughat al-Turk, 87–91 dobrovolnoe prisoedinenie, “voluntary unification [with Russia],” doctrine of, 284–5 Dolon Nor, site of Mongol acceptance of Manchu suzerainty, 171 Donish, Ahmad, Bukharan scholar and civil servant, 241 Dukchi Ishon, leader of a native uprising against Tsarist rule, 207 Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, 12; called Stalinabad between 1936 and 1961 Eastern Turkestan see Sinkiang Elista, capital of Kalmykia, viii, xi Erdeniz Zu, Buddhist monastery at Qaraqorum, 19, 299 Erk, Uzbek political party, 304 Esen Buqa II, Chaghatayid ruler of Moghulistan, 141 Farab, a site near the Syr Darya, birthplace of al-Farabi, 25 Farabi, an Islamic philosopher and philologist, 25 Fathabad, a Kubraviya dervish lodge near Bukhara, 119 Fayzabad, administrative center of Afghan Badakhshan, 13 Fergana, 9–10 Firuzkuh, mountains in northern Afghanistan, 10 Fitrat, Abdarrauf, Bukharan and Uzbek author, scholar, and public figure, 206, 222 French North Africa, compared with Russian Central Asia, 200, 284 Frunze (city), name of Bishkek under Soviet rule, 24, 233–4 Galdan, khan of Jungaria, 170–1 Galdan Tsereng, khan of Jungaria, 172 Gandan, Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar, 299 Garmo, a mountain in Tajikistan, as “Pik Kommunizma” the highest mountain of the former Soviet empire, 15 gas, natural, 286–7, 293 Gaspirali, Ismail Beg or Gasprinskiy, 207 Genghis Khan, 7, 19, 104–5 Genghisids, 320 ghazi, Muslims fighting the jihad (holy war), 25 Ghaznavids, 96–8, 318 Gijduvani, Abd al-Khaliq, a sufi shaykh, 138 Girey, a Genghisid prince, with Janibeg laid the foundations of the Kazakh nationality,146 glasnost, “openness,” freedom of expression introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 8, 259, 303, 311 Gobi, 2, 16, 18, 20 Gök-tepe, southern Turkmenistan, site of two memorable battles between the Turkmens and Tsarist troops, 312 Golden Horde, 28, 322–3 ; see also Batuids; Dasht-i Kipchak Gorbachev, Mikhail, 253, 256–7, 260, 303–4 Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region, x, xi, 21; Gorno-Altaisk, the capital goskhoz, Mongol version of the sovkhoz (state farm), 300 Great Seljuks see Seljukids Grousset, René, 3, 343, 349 Gunt, a river in Badakhshan, 13 Güyük, Genghis Khan’s grandson and second successor, 109 Hafiz-i Tanish Bukhari, author of Abdallah II’s biography Sharafname-i Shahi, 178 Hami or Qomul, a city in southern Sinkiang on the Silk Road, 2, 16, 52, 165 Hamzaabad, Uzbek enclave in southern Kyrgyzstan, site of a Muslim and Bolshevik shrine, 247 Han (ethnic Chinese), 274 Hangai, mountains in Mongolia, 1, 18 Haydar Mirza, author of the Tarikh-i Rashidi, 116, 161 Hazrat-i Turkistan, nickname of Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi, 26
Hentei, mountains in Mongolia, 2, 18 Herat, a city in north-western Afghanistan, second capital of the Timurid empire, 10 hijra, “hegira,” the Prophet Muhammad’s emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622, beginning of the Islamic era, 47 Hindukush, mountains in Afghanistan, 5, 10 Hindustan, 6 Hsi-hsia, Chinese name of the Tangut empire in Kansu, 104–5 Hsüan-tsang, a Buddhist pilgrim, 49, 80–1 Huehot or Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, 20 Ibn Battuta, Moroccan traveller, author of the Rihla (“Journey”)119–20 Ibn Fadlan, member of a mission from the caliph to Bulghar, author of another Rihla, 9 Ibn Hawqal, Arab traveller and geographer, 73–5 Ibn Sina (Avicenna), 86–7 idiqut, title of the Uighur ruler of Qocho, 81, 120 Ili, river and valley, 22, 23 Ilkhanids, 110, 121, 323 Inakids or Inaqids, a non-Genghisid dynasty, the last to rule Khiva, 187–8, 328 independence, of Central Asian republics, 254, 275–6 Inner Asia, concept of, xi–xii Inner Mongolia, viii, xi inorodtsy, 209 Iran, viii, 6 Iranian languages, 32, 55 Irdana Biy, ruler of Khoqand, 189 Irkutsk, 21 irrigation, 7–9 Irtysh, a river in Siberia, 22 Isfijab see Sayram Ishaqiya see Qarataghlilq Ishim, Kazakh khan, 173 ishon, 38 Islam, 34–9, 49–50 Ismaili Shia, 13 Issyk Kul Lake, 15, 24 Istoriya Kazakhskoy SSR, “History of the Kazakh SSR,” 349–50 Itil, 9, 28 Ivan IV “the Terrible,” tsar of Russia, 162–3 Jadids, jadidism, 206 Jalal al-din Mangubirti, 107 Jambul, 24; previously known as Auliye-Ata Jami, Abd al-Rahman, Timurid poet, 135–6 Index 363 Jand, early Islamic town on the lower Syr Darya, 27 Janibeg, Genghisid prince, with Girey laid the foundations of the Kazakh nationality, xxx Janibeg, khan of the Golden Horde, 116 Janids or Ashtarkhanids or Toqay-Timurids, 177, 325–6 Jasaly, a railroad station in south-western Kazakhstan, Leninsk in the Soviet period, 27 Jayhun see Amu Darya Jetisu see Semireche jihad, 75 Juchi, Genghis Khan’s eldest son, 107 Juchids, Juchi’s descendants who included the Batuids (Golden Horde), Shaybanids, Toqay-Timurids, and Kazakh khans and sultans, 000 Jungaria, 18 Jungarian Gate, 22 Jungars, 169; see also Oirats, Kalmyks Jurm, ancient city in Afghan Badakhshan, 13 Jurchen, a Tunguz people who conquered northern China from the Khitan and founded their dynasty of Chin, 99 Jüz, Kazakh term for the Horde (tribal confederation), 164 Kalmykia, Kalmyk Autonomous Republic, viii, xi Kalmyks, 145–7, 169, 175; see also Oirats, Jungars Karaganda, city in Kazakstan, center of a coal mining region, 232 Karakalpakistan or Qoraqalpoghiston, 337 Karakoram, mountains in northern Tibet, 2 Karakum canal, irrigation canal in Turkmenistan, 8, 293–4 Karakum, a desert in Turkmenistan, 2 Karatau, mountains in southern Kazakhstan, 14, 23, 25 Karimov, Islam, president of Uzbekistan, 281, 283, 294, 305–6 Kasani, Khwaja Ahmad, “Makhdum-i Azam,” a Naqshbandi shaykh, 158–9, 329 Kashgar, 16–17, 52, 165 Kashgari, Mahmud, author of the Diwan lughat al-Turk, 87–91 Kashka Darya, a river in eastern Uzbekistan, 4 Kat, one of the two capitals of ancient Khwarazm, 6
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