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A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA

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Sabri, Masud, head of native government in<br />

Sinkiang, 272<br />

Safed Kuh, mountains in northern<br />

Afghanistan, 10<br />

Saifuddin, Uighur nationalist, leader of the<br />

Second Revolution, 272<br />

Samanid mausoleum, 75<br />

Samanids, 71–3, 316<br />

Samarkand, 4, 5, 12<br />

Sanjar, Seljukid sultan, 96, 98–9<br />

Saray, capital of the Golden Horde on the<br />

lower Volga, 28<br />

Sarts, 32–3, 187<br />

Sasanians, last pre-Islamic dynasty of Iran, 32,<br />

46<br />

Sayan, mountains in southern Siberia,, 21<br />

Sayram, birthplace of Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi,<br />

25–6<br />

Scythians, 28<br />

Secret History of the Mongols, 359<br />

sedentaries, 27, 41<br />

Seljukids, 93–9, 318–19<br />

Semireche, 22, 23–4<br />

settlers, Slavic, in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan,<br />

236<br />

Shahidi, Burhan, 272<br />

Shahimardan, 247<br />

Shah-i Turkistan, 26, 143<br />

Shah-i Zinda, 246–7<br />

shaman, shamanism, 40–41<br />

sharia, 113<br />

Shaybani, Muhammad, 141, 143, 149–54<br />

Shaybanids, 149–57, 325<br />

shaykh, 37<br />

Sheng Shi-tsai, governor of Sinkiang, 271–2<br />

Shevardnadze, Eduard, president of Georgia,<br />

311<br />

Shir Ghazi, khan of Khiva, 186<br />

Shura-i Islam, 210, 214<br />

Siberia, viii, 20<br />

Sibir, city and khanate, 163<br />

Sighnaq, 25, 27<br />

Silk Road, 15–16, 80<br />

Sinkiang, viii–xi, 16, 47, 263–74, 314, 338–9<br />

Slavic languages, 32<br />

sliyanie, “[multiethnic] fusion,” as a goal of<br />

Soviet policy, 232<br />

Sogdia, 5, 25, 48; Sogdian language, 74<br />

Sokollu Mehmet Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier,<br />

162–3<br />

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 285<br />

Sorqaqtani, wife of Toluy and mother of<br />

Great Khans Möngke and Qubilay, 109,<br />

117–18<br />

Soviet Central Asia, x<br />

Index 367<br />

Soviet Union: formation, 223; constitution,<br />

226; structure, 227; Union republics, 227<br />

soyurghal, 127, 147<br />

Stalin, Joseph, 211, 213–15, 281<br />

Stein, Sir Aurel, a British archaeologist, 268<br />

sufi, sufism, 37<br />

Sükhbaatar, 21 (city), 298 (founder of modern<br />

Mongolia)<br />

sultan, 196<br />

“summit” of Turkic states, 291<br />

Suyab, capital of the Western Kök Turkic<br />

empire, 24<br />

Syr Darya, 9, 13, 14, 15, 27; known as<br />

Iaxartes in classical sources and Sayhun<br />

in Arabic ones<br />

Syriac language and script, 49<br />

taiga, 1<br />

Tajik, 31–2<br />

Tajikistan, viii–xi, 306–8, 334–5<br />

Taklamakan,a desert in southern Sinkiang 15<br />

Talas, Taraz (city), 25, 68–9, (river), 23, 52<br />

Taliban, 282<br />

Tang, Chinese dynasty ruling at the time of<br />

the Arab conquest of Central Asia, 46<br />

Tannu Ola, mountains in southern Siberia,<br />

21<br />

Tarbagatai, mountains between Sinkiang and<br />

Kazakhstan, 22<br />

Tarim, river and basin in southern Sinkiang,<br />

15–16<br />

tariqa, lit.“path,” Islamic name for a dervish<br />

order, 37<br />

Tarmashirin, Ala al-Din, Chaghatay khan,<br />

119–20<br />

tasawwuf, Islamic mysticism, 37<br />

Tashkent, viii, x, 14, 15, 198, 202<br />

Tatars, 19–20, 196–7<br />

Tatarstan, viii, xi, 28<br />

Tauke, Kazakh khan, 172<br />

Tayy, Arab tribe 32<br />

Tejen, a river and oasis complex in southern<br />

Turkmenistan, 10<br />

Temujin, original name of Genghis Khan, 19<br />

tengri, Turko-Mongol name for the principal<br />

celestial deity, 3<br />

Thomsen, Vilhelm, a Danish scholar,<br />

deciphered the Orkhon inscriptions, 53<br />

Tianshan, mountains in Sinkiang and<br />

Kyrgyzstan, 2, 17–18, 24–5<br />

Tibet, 171<br />

Timur (Tamerlane), 4, 123–5<br />

Timurids, 126–37, 324–5<br />

Tirmidh, a city and intersection on the Amu<br />

Darya, 12

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