Research Themes
abyz
accommodation with foreign dominance
agriculture
al-Azhar
alcoholism
al-Narshakhi
al-Qaida
al-Tirmidhi
al-Zamakhshari
amirs
amulets & talismans
animal husbandry
animals
anthologies (literary)
anticlericalism
anti-Semitism
appanages
architecture
arts & crafts
‘aruz
‘asabiyya
asceticism
atheism
autobiography
bakhshis
ballet
bank & banking system
bilingualism
biography
book printing
borderlands & borders disputes
calendars
calligraphy (Arabic)
carpet-making
cattle breading
cemeteries
censorship
censuses
ceramics
chancellery documents
child birth
childhood
cholera
cinema
citizenship
civil society
civil war of Tajikistan
clans & clan structure
‘clash of civilisations’
climate
clothing & costume
collectivisation
colonialism
‘colour revolutions’
colonisation
commerce
communes & communities (rural)
communes & communities (urban)
conflict resolution
conscription
constitutional law
construction methods
conversion
cooking
‘corruption’
cotton
criminality
cuisine
dance
dastans
death
decentralisation
decolonisation
democracy
demography
deportations
development
dhikr
diaspora phenomena
diplomacy
divination
divorce
drug consumption & trade
economy
education
embroidery
emotions (musical)
empire
employment
enclaves
encyclopaedias
energy security
environment
epics
ethics
ethnic conflicts
ethnic history
‘ethnicity’
ethno-genesis
ethnography
exodus
exogamy
exorcism
family relations
famine
fatwas
feminism
finance
financing of research
fiqh
fiscal policy
fishing
food
fortune-telling
FSB
funerary rituals
furniture
gardens
gender
genocide
geopolitics
ghazal
glass painting
globalisation
gnosis & gnosticism
grammar
hagiography
healers & healing
health
heritage transmission
heroine production
historical ethnography
historical novel
historiography
horse breading
hospitality
housing
human rights
humanitarian assistance
hunting
hydrocarbons
hydrography
ijtihad
IMF
imperialism
industrialisation
industry
intelligentsias
international relations
internet
iqta‘
irrigation
ishans
jewellery
jihad
jïyïns
kalam
KGB
khalifas (Isma‘ili)
khans & khanates
khutba
kinship
kolkhozes
korenizatsiia
landlockedness
landownership
law
legitimacy (political and/or religious)
lexicography
libraries & librarians
lineages
living standards
local networks
‘localism’
maddahs & maddah-khwani
madhhabs
madrasas
magic
magical numbers
male unions
mapping
maqams
marriage
mäshräp
maskhara-bazi
mass-media
memory (collective)
metrics
migrations
military equipment
military personnel
miniature painting
minorities (ethnic)
minzu (民族)
miracles
missionaries (Christian)
modernisation & modernity
money transfer networks
mosques
mountain-dwellers
muftiates (in the Russian Empire)
mukhammas
multiculturalism
multilingualism
munajat
music
musical instruments
musicians
mutawallis & mutawalliyat
mystical paths
naming practices
nation, nation-building, nationalism
national policies
NATO
NEP
networks
NKVD
nobility
nomadic societies & way of life, nomads
nuclear energy
OGPU
opera
opium culture & consumption
oqsoqol
oral tradition & creation
orisons
OSCE
otins
painting
pastoralism
peasantry
philanthropy
photography
piedmont areas
pilgrimages
pipelines
pirs (Isma‘ili)
poetry
pogroms
polygamy
populists
postcards
pottery
prayers
press
printing
privatisation
production systems
proselytism
puppet theatre
qasida
qawm
qawwals
qazis
racism
railway
refugees
regionalism
religion (‘popular’)
religion(s)
religious personnel
remittances
rhyming prose
risalas
rituals
ruba‘i
rulership
rural exodus
sabk-i hindi
saffron
saintly lineages
saints & sainthood
‘salt duty’
samizdat
saqi-namas
satire
sayyids
schools & schooling
sciences and techniques
seals
secularism & secularisation
security & security architecture
sedentarisation
sedentary societies
serfdom
settling & settling policies
sexuality
shash-maqam
shi‘r-i naw
shrines
silsila
slaves & slave trade
smuggling
sociability
social sciences
socialist realism
solidarity
songs
sorcery
sovets
sovkhozes
spirits
state & state-building
statehood
statistics
synagogues
syncretisms
tabaqat
tadhkira
tafsir
taiga
tanning
tariqat
tarkhan
tax systems
teips
television
terrorism
textiles
theatre
toleration
topography
toponymy
totalitarianism
tourism
toy (party)
tradition
transition from socialism
translation & translators
trans-nationalism
transport
travels and travellers
tribes & tribalism
tundra
UN
UNESCO
uprisings
urbanisation
USA
USSR
veil & veiling of women
velayat-e faqih
violence
waqf-namas
waqfs
warfare
water
wedding & wedding rituals
welfare
working class
WWI
WWII
yasa
youth
zakat
zemstvos
calligraphy (Arabic)
Research Themes
abyz
accommodation with foreign dominance
agriculture
al-Azhar
alcoholism
al-Narshakhi
al-Qaida
al-Tirmidhi
al-Zamakhshari
amirs
amulets & talismans
animal husbandry
animals
anthologies (literary)
anticlericalism
anti-Semitism
appanages
architecture
arts & crafts
‘aruz
‘asabiyya
asceticism
atheism
autobiography
bakhshis
ballet
bank & banking system
bilingualism
biography
book printing
borderlands & borders disputes
calendars
calligraphy (Arabic)
carpet-making
cattle breading
cemeteries
censorship
censuses
ceramics
chancellery documents
child birth
childhood
cholera
cinema
citizenship
civil society
civil war of Tajikistan
clans & clan structure
‘clash of civilisations’
climate
clothing & costume
collectivisation
colonialism
‘colour revolutions’
colonisation
commerce
communes & communities (rural)
communes & communities (urban)
conflict resolution
conscription
constitutional law
construction methods
conversion
cooking
‘corruption’
cotton
criminality
cuisine
dance
dastans
death
decentralisation
decolonisation
democracy
demography
deportations
development
dhikr
diaspora phenomena
diplomacy
divination
divorce
drug consumption & trade
economy
education
embroidery
emotions (musical)
empire
employment
enclaves
encyclopaedias
energy security
environment
epics
ethics
ethnic conflicts
ethnic history
‘ethnicity’
ethno-genesis
ethnography
exodus
exogamy
exorcism
family relations
famine
fatwas
feminism
finance
financing of research
fiqh
fiscal policy
fishing
food
fortune-telling
FSB
funerary rituals
furniture
gardens
gender
genocide
geopolitics
ghazal
glass painting
globalisation
gnosis & gnosticism
grammar
hagiography
healers & healing
health
heritage transmission
heroine production
historical ethnography
historical novel
historiography
horse breading
hospitality
housing
human rights
humanitarian assistance
hunting
hydrocarbons
hydrography
ijtihad
IMF
imperialism
industrialisation
industry
intelligentsias
international relations
internet
iqta‘
irrigation
ishans
jewellery
jihad
jïyïns
kalam
KGB
khalifas (Isma‘ili)
khans & khanates
khutba
kinship
kolkhozes
korenizatsiia
landlockedness
landownership
law
legitimacy (political and/or religious)
lexicography
libraries & librarians
lineages
living standards
local networks
‘localism’
maddahs & maddah-khwani
madhhabs
madrasas
magic
magical numbers
male unions
mapping
maqams
marriage
mäshräp
maskhara-bazi
mass-media
memory (collective)
metrics
migrations
military equipment
military personnel
miniature painting
minorities (ethnic)
minzu (民族)
miracles
missionaries (Christian)
modernisation & modernity
money transfer networks
mosques
mountain-dwellers
muftiates (in the Russian Empire)
mukhammas
multiculturalism
multilingualism
munajat
music
musical instruments
musicians
mutawallis & mutawalliyat
mystical paths
naming practices
nation, nation-building, nationalism
national policies
NATO
NEP
networks
NKVD
nobility
nomadic societies & way of life, nomads
nuclear energy
OGPU
opera
opium culture & consumption
oqsoqol
oral tradition & creation
orisons
OSCE
otins
painting
pastoralism
peasantry
philanthropy
photography
piedmont areas
pilgrimages
pipelines
pirs (Isma‘ili)
poetry
pogroms
polygamy
populists
postcards
pottery
prayers
press
printing
privatisation
production systems
proselytism
puppet theatre
qasida
qawm
qawwals
qazis
racism
railway
refugees
regionalism
religion (‘popular’)
religion(s)
religious personnel
remittances
rhyming prose
risalas
rituals
ruba‘i
rulership
rural exodus
sabk-i hindi
saffron
saintly lineages
saints & sainthood
‘salt duty’
samizdat
saqi-namas
satire
sayyids
schools & schooling
sciences and techniques
seals
secularism & secularisation
security & security architecture
sedentarisation
sedentary societies
serfdom
settling & settling policies
sexuality
shash-maqam
shi‘r-i naw
shrines
silsila
slaves & slave trade
smuggling
sociability
social sciences
socialist realism
solidarity
songs
sorcery
sovets
sovkhozes
spirits
state & state-building
statehood
statistics
synagogues
syncretisms
tabaqat
tadhkira
tafsir
taiga
tanning
tariqat
tarkhan
tax systems
teips
television
terrorism
textiles
theatre
toleration
topography
toponymy
totalitarianism
tourism
toy (party)
tradition
transition from socialism
translation & translators
trans-nationalism
transport
travels and travellers
tribes & tribalism
tundra
UN
UNESCO
uprisings
urbanisation
USA
USSR
veil & veiling of women
velayat-e faqih
violence
waqf-namas
waqfs
warfare
water
wedding & wedding rituals
welfare
working class
WWI
WWII
yasa
youth
zakat
zemstvos
calligraphy (Arabic)
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