Conceptualizing Religion and Culture in Turko-Persia -- Centering Bukhara: The Reconstruction and Mythologization of a Eurasian Cosmopolis -- Bukhara Center: Islamic Scholars as a Network of Human Exchange -- Patricians of Bukhara: Turkic Nobility, Persianate Pedagogy, and Islamic Society -- High Persianate Intellectuals in the Abode of Knowledge -- Between Sharia and the Beloved: Culture and Contradiction in Persianate Sunnism -- Opportunity from Upheaval: Scholarly Dynasties between Nadir Shah and the Bolshevik Revolution -- The Sovereign and the Sage: The Precarious, Paradoxical Relationship between the Ulama and Temporal Power
Summary
"Shows that the Central Asian city of Bukhara was the pivot of a transregional zone of Perso-Islamic cultural exchange, a role that endured and even expanded under Russian imperial rule"-- Provided by publisher
