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A city and its landscape across time: Samarkand in the ancient Sogdiana (Uzbekistan) [PDF]

, 2017
Located in the heartland of Central Asia, Samarkand has always been an economic, cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious hub along the ancient Silk Road.
Mantellini, S.
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Works on public finance by the sixteenth century Muslim scholars [PDF]

The subject of public finance and taxation marked the beginning of systematic and rather exclusive writing on economic issues in Islamic tradition in its earliest period. Within a few centuries a large number of works came out on the subject.
Islahi, Abdul Azim
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Persia under Mongol domination. The effectiveness and and failings of a dual administrative system [PDF]

, 2006
International audienceThis paper points out the break of the traditionnal administrative patterns from dure Gret' Khans period to the fall of the Persian Ilkhanate in 1355. Previously, financial and secretarial offices had been handed down, to generation,
Aigle, Denise
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From empire to multilateral player: the deep roots of autonomy in Russia [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter focuses on Russia’s unlikely experiment in national cultural autonomy (NCA). I start with Russia’s accession to the Council of Europe (CoE) and the start of its experiment in NCA, both of which took place in 1996.
Bowring, Bill
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The Western Mongol World in the Early Eighteenth Century: Kalmyks and Oirats in Vasilis Vatatzēs’s Periēgētikon and His 1732 Map of Central Asia

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The article revolves around the information on the Kalmyks and Oirats contained in Vasilis Vatatzēs’s Periēgētikon (Voyages). Vatatzēs, a Greek-Ottoman merchant who travelled in Central Asia in the first half of the eighteenth century, supplemented his ...
Stefanos Kordosis
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Les fouilles de Paykend : nouveaux éléments

, 2013
International audienceCet article présente les données préliminaires des travaux de fouilles actuels à Paykend. Il se focalise sur des questions concernant la fondation de la ville et son urbanisme à l’époque médiévale à travers l’étude stratigraphique ...
Raimkulov, Abdisabur, Rante, Rocco
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The Concept of Economic Development in the Thought of Selected Muslim Scholars [PDF]

, 2012
Objective - Islam is a total way of life, and covers all dimensions of life. The life of the world is temporary; it is simply a transitional place before one embarks on final destination.
Manurung, S. (Saprinal)
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Coin Collecting in Colonial Turkestan (From Russian Conquest to the end of the 19th Century) [PDF]

, 2016
The article surveys coin collecting activities in Russian colonial Turkestan during the last three decades ofthe 19. century. Material presented makes it clear, that significant acquisitions were made by central and local museums with the help of ...
Naymark, Aleksandr
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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]

, 2003
As the Soviet Union dissolved into a new territorial reality, it released the doubly repressed histories of Tsarist and Soviet imperium. In the states to the south of the new Russian Federation, the post-soviet jostled with the postcolonial as nations ...
Bowring, Bill
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Orientalisms in the interpretation of Islamic philosophy [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper, I argue that Edward Said’s central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy ...
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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