In remembrance of the saints: the rise and fall of an Inner Asian Sufi dynasty

"In the first half of the eighteenth century, members of the Naqshbandi Sufi dynasty vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an opportunity to assert their independence in the oasi...

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1. Verfasser: Kāshgharī, Muḥammad Ṣadiq, active 1780 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Brophy, David John (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Uighur
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Translations from the Asian classics.
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Zusammenfassung:"In the first half of the eighteenth century, members of the Naqshbandi Sufi dynasty vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an opportunity to assert their independence in the oasis cities of Kashgar and Yarkand. Others sided with the armies of the Qing dynasty, which were massing on the frontiers to invade. The ensuing conflict saw the region incorporated into the expanding Qing imperium. Three decades afterward, Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari was commissioned to write an account of these Naqshbandi Sufis and their downfall. Blending the genres of collective biography and historical epic, mixing prose and verse, Kashghari's text vividly depicts religious and political conflicts on the eve of the Qing conquest. It became the most popular and influential Chaghatay-language work to grapple with this divisive period. This volume presents the complete, long recension of In Remembrance of the Saints, translated for the first time into any language and extensively annotated with reference to both Islamic and Qing sources. The introduction situates the work in the Inner Asian tradition of Sufi biography and discusses the political factors shaping historical memory in Qianlong-era Xinjiang. Providing a rare local perspective on China's expansion into Muslim borderlands, this translation sheds light on Xinjiang's political and religious traditions and makes a foundational work of Inner Asian literature available to students and scholars"--
Beschreibung:Translated from the original Uyghur Turkic language into English
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxviii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780231552523
0231552521

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