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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)