Central Asia Initiative
Publications
Overview of Leiden publications on Central Asia. For additional publications dedicated to a single country, please go to individual pages of the researchers, which you can access through the Researchers page.
Overview of books published by Leiden scholars working on Central Asia.
Van der Heide, Nienke (2015), Spirited Performance: The Manas epic and society in Kyrgyzstan. Rozenberg Series, Vol. 3. Europaeischer Hochschulverlag.
Berg G.R. van den & Rahmoni R. (2013), The Story of Barzu as Told By Two Storytellers from Boysun, Uzbekistan. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
Berg G.R. van den, Melville C.P.M. & Sharma S. (Eds.) (2012), Studies in Persian Cultural History (Series Editor). Leiden: Brill.
Peyrot M. (2008), Variation and change in Tocharian. B. Amsterdam − New York: Rodopi.
Berg G.R. van den (2004), Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains. A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag.
Overview of recent book chapters published by Leiden scholars working on Central Asia. This overview includes chapters published after 2013. For earlier publications, please refer to the personal profiles of the researchers and check the country profiles on the Researchers page.
- Berg G.R. van den (2015), Two 17th-century Prose Renditions of the Barzuname: The Story of Barzu, son of Sohrab, in the Ehya al-Moluk and in the Tarikh-e Shamshirkhani. In: Hashabeiky F. (Ed.) International Shahname Conference - The Second Millennium Acta Orientalis Upsaliensis - Studia Iranica Upsaliensia no. 26. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet. 135-150.
- Berg G.R. van den (2014), “ʿAynī, Ṣadr al-Dīn” [Ayni Sadr Din]. In: Fleet K., Krämer G., Matringe D., Nawas J., Rowson E. (Eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition, Part 2014-4. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 14-15.
Overview of recent articles published by Leiden scholars working on Central Asia. This overview includes articles published after 2013. For earlier publications, please refer to the personal profiles of the researchers and check the country profiles on the Central Asia website.
- Hofman, I. (2016), Politics or profits along the “Silk Road”: what drives Chinese farms in Tajikistan and helps them thrive?, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57: 1-25.
- Paskaleva E. (2015), Ideology in Brick and Tile: Timurid Architecture of the 21st Century, Central Asian Survey, 34 (4), Special Issue: Reflections on post-Soviet Development in Central Asia: A Multu-disciplinary Perspective, ed. Gül Berna Özcan: 418-439.
- Berg G.R. van den (2015), De geschiedenis van de Mongolen verbeeld? De Ilkhanieden en het Shahnama, Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrift 30(1): 47-63.
- Hofman I. & Visser O. (2014),Geographies of transition: The political and geographical factors of agrarian change in Tajikistan, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Discussion Paper no 151.
- Paskaleva E. (2013), Samarqand Refashioned: A Traveller’s Impressions (with a preface by Daniel C. Waugh), Silk Road Journal 11(2013): 139-153.
- Paskaleva E. (2013), The cityscape of modern Central Asia. The politics of urban renewal in Tashkent., IIAS newsletter 66(Winter 2013): 48-49.
- Paskaleva E. (2013), Epigraphic restorations of Timurid architectural heritage, IIAS newsletter 64(Summer 2013): 10-11.
Leidschrift, nr. 1, 2015, De invloed van steppevolkeren. Mongools juk of Pax Mongolica?
Al in de veertiende eeuw werd de steppe door de Arabische historicus Ibn Khaldun omschreven als een bron van vernieuwing. Steppeconfederaties zoals die van de Mongolen hebben zowel direct als indirect een grote impact gehad op diverse aspecten van de wereldgeschiedenis. Zo heeft de Turko-Mongoolse traditie het politieke denken in het Midden-Oosten sterk beïnvloed en zorgde de Pax Mongolica voor een herleving van de handel via de zijderoute. Ook de militaire kracht van deze nomadische ruiters, die de aanzet gaf voor volksverhuizingen, was een factor van belang. In het januarinummer van Leidschrift zal de invloed van de steppevolkeren en hun relatie met de sedentaire wereld verder worden onderzocht.
IIAS Newsletter, No 74 Summer 2016
Memory and commemoration in Central Asia
IIAS Newsletter, No 70 Spring 2015
Central and Inner Asia: New Challenges for Independent Research
- Jansen, B. (24 February 2015), The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-modern Tibet (PhD thesis). Supervisor: Silk J.A.
- Peyrot M. (28 September 2010), The Tocharian subjunctive (PhD thesis). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s):Lubotsky A.M.