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TURKIC-SPEAKING PEOPLES 799<br />

both in the past (precedence in adopting Islam) and in the present as learned and<br />

pious members of the Islamic intelligentsia. Restoring their former dignity, if<br />

not their former leadership, seems to be their common purpose.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

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Joseph Tubiana<br />

TURKIC-SPEAKING PEOPLES More than 100 million Turkic-speaking<br />

peoples of Europe and Asia, here called Turks, occupy an almost continuous<br />

band of territory extending from the Balkans to northeastern Siberia. While the<br />

peripheries of their lands are but sparsely populated by Turks, they comprise<br />

the predominant ethnic communities in the Anatolian peninsula and in the Central<br />

Asian borderlands of the Soviet Union, Iran, Afghanistan and China.<br />

The heterogeneity of the Turks in religion (they are 98 percent Muslim of<br />

various sects), racial type, social structure and modes of livelihood renders<br />

untenable any attempt to classify them as a separate and distinct ethnic entity

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