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A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA

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Horde defeated by Dimitriy Donskoy,<br />

121<br />

Manchu or Ching, the last dynasty to rule<br />

China, 263–4<br />

Manghits, a non-Genghisid dynasty of emirs,<br />

the last to rule the Emirate of Bukhara,<br />

180–1, 326<br />

Manichaeism, 49<br />

Mansur Khan, a Chaghatayid khan in<br />

Sinkiang, 121, 165<br />

Mawarannahr see Transoxania<br />

mazar, shrine and site of pious visits, 38, 248<br />

Mazar-i Sharif, a city and shrine in northern<br />

Afghanistan, 11, 247<br />

Mecca, 47, 52<br />

Medina, 47, 52<br />

Merv, metropolis of historical Khurasan, now<br />

an archaeological site in Turkmenistan,<br />

10–11, 199<br />

metallurgy, 3<br />

Ming dynasty of Khoqand, 189, 326–7<br />

Mir Arab madrasa, Bukhara, one of the two<br />

functioning Islamic seminaries under<br />

Soviet rule, 230<br />

Moghulistan, 23, 24, 120–1<br />

Möngke, a grandson of Genghis Khan, his<br />

third successor, 110–11<br />

Mongolia, viii–xi, 297–302, 339–40<br />

Mongols, xi, 31<br />

Buddhist, 167–9<br />

conquering, 103–11<br />

western: see Oirats, Kalmyks, Jungars<br />

Mughals, name of the Timurid dynasty in<br />

India founded by Babur, 155<br />

Muhammad, the Prophet, 47<br />

multi-party democracy, 305–6<br />

Muqanna, self-styled prophet of a sect fighting<br />

the Arabs in Transoxania, 65<br />

Murghab, a river in Turkmenistan feeding the<br />

oasis of Merv, 10<br />

Nadira, Madali Khan’s wife and a poetess, 191<br />

Nadir Shah, 179<br />

Najaf, a town in Iraq and burial place of Ali,<br />

11<br />

Nanlu, “Southern Route,” name applied in<br />

the Manchu period to southern Sinkiang,<br />

16–17; see also Peilu<br />

Naqshband, Baha al-Din, founder of the<br />

Naqshbandiya order of dervishes, 137–9<br />

Naqshbandiya order of dervishes, 37–8,<br />

137–9, 156–9<br />

national delimitation see natsionalnoe<br />

razmezhevanie<br />

nationalism, 238<br />

Index 365<br />

nationalization, 230–1<br />

natsionalnoe razmezhevanie, 33, 222–5<br />

Navai, Mir Ali Shir, a Chaghatay poet and<br />

public figure in Timurid Herat, 133–5<br />

Nazarbaev, Nursultan, president of<br />

Kazakhstan, 261, 281<br />

“near abroad,” a recently formulated Russian<br />

concept of Central Asia, 315<br />

Nebit Dag, a town in western Turkmenistan in<br />

a natural gas-rich region, 7<br />

negdel, Mongol collective farm, 300<br />

Nishapur, a historic city in Persian Khurasan,<br />

10<br />

Niyaz, Khoja, an Uighur nationalist leader in<br />

Kashgar, 271<br />

Niyazi, Hamza Hakimzade, an Uzbek<br />

Bolshevik teacher and propagandist,<br />

247<br />

Niyazov, Saparmurat, president of<br />

Turkmenistan, now also offically called<br />

Turkmenbashy (“Chief of the<br />

Turkmens”), 281–2<br />

nomads, 1–3, 23, 27, 41, 236<br />

Novorossiysk, a port on the Black Sea and<br />

terminus of an oil pipeline from<br />

Kazakhstan, 288<br />

nuclear testing, 236<br />

Nukus, capital of Karakalpakistan, 337<br />

Numijkat (original name of Bukhara), 5<br />

Ögedey, third son and first successor of<br />

Genghis Khan, 19, 107<br />

Oghuz, one of the main groups of Turkic<br />

tribes and languages, 27, 93–5<br />

oil, 287–8<br />

Oirats or Western Mongols, 21, 169; see also<br />

Kalmyks, Jungars<br />

Omsk, a city in western Siberia, seat of the<br />

governor of the Governorate-General<br />

Steppe, 201<br />

Onon, a river in eastern Mongolia, 19<br />

Ordos, Mongol tribes in Inner Mongolia, 20<br />

Orenburg, a city in southern Russia and<br />

gateway to Kazakhstan, 27<br />

Orkhon, a river and valley in Mongolia, center<br />

of three steppe empires (Kök Turkic,<br />

Uighur, Mongol), 19<br />

Orkhon inscriptions, 53–5<br />

Osh, a town in western Kyrgyzstan marked by<br />

a large Uzbek minority, 292<br />

Otrar, an intersection on the Syr Darya, 25,<br />

26, 106, 125<br />

Ottoman Empire, 162–3, 257<br />

Outer Mongolia, x<br />

Oxus see Amu Darya

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