Books
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Translated into Chinese, Turkish, and Russian
- Italian and Uzbek translations forthcoming
Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
- Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, ASEEES, 2016
- Honorable Mention, Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities, 2016
- Translated into Uzbek and Russian.
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
- Reissued with a new afterword, 2014.
- Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, AAASS, 2008
- Russian translation: Islam posle kommunizma. Religiia i politika v Tsentral’noi Azii. Trans. A. B. Bogdanova. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Izdatel’stvo, 2010.
- Turkish translation: Komünizmden Sonra İslam: Orta Asya’da Din ve Politika. Trans. Aslıhan Tekyıldız. Ankara: Sitare Yayınları, 2011.
- Korean translation: Kongsanjuŭĭ yihu Isulam: Chungang Asia ŭi jonggyo wa chŏnch’i. Trans. Won-kyo Oh. SNUAC Modern Asian History Series. Seoul: Zininzin, 2019.
The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia. Comparative Studies in Muslim Societies, 27. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
- South Asian edition: Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Edited Works
Guest editor, special issue on “Locating the (Post-) Colonial in Soviet History,” Central Asian Survey, vol. 26, no. 4 (2007).
Section editor for Central Asia in Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook, ed. Charles Kurzman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Major Articles and Book Chapters
“Communism on the Frontier: The Sovietization of Central Asia and Mongolia,” in The Cambridge History of Communism, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 616-636.
“Central Asia between the Ottoman and the Soviet Worlds,” Kritika, 12 (2011), 455-480.
“The Bukharan People’s Soviet Republic in the Light of Muslim Sources,” Die Welt des Islams, 50 (2010), 335-361.
“Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus to 1917,” in The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 180-202.
“Culture and Power in Colonial Turkestan,” in Le Turkestan russe colonial: une colonie comme les autres?, ed. Svetlana Gorshenina and Sergei Abashin = Cahiers d’Asie centrale, no. 17-18 (2009), 403-436.
“The Soviet Union as an Imperial Formation: A View from Central Asia,” in Imperial Formations, ed. Ann Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter Perdue (Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press, 2007), 123-151.
“Backwardness and the Quest for Civilization: Early Soviet Central Asia in Comparative Perspective,” Slavic Review 65 (2006): 231-251–
“Turkestan v 1917–1922 godakh: bor’ba za vlast’ na okraine Rossii [Turkestan 1917–1922: The Struggle for Power in a Russian Borderland],” in Tragediia velikoi derzhavy: natsional’nyi vopros i raspad Sovetskogo Soiuza (Moscow: Izd. «Sotsial’no-politicheskaia mysl’», 2005), 189-226.
“Pan-Islamism in Practice: The Rhetoric of Muslim Unity and its Uses,” in Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy, ed. Elisabeth Özdalga (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), 201-224.
“Postsovetskie sud’by sredneaziatskogo islama,” Ab Imperio, 2004, no. 3, 435-462.
- Reprinted in: Il’ia Gerasimov, Marina Mogil’ner, and Aleksandr Semenov, eds., Konfessiia, imperiia, natsiia: Religiia i problema raznoobraziia v istorii postsovetskogo prostranstva (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2012), 316-344.
“Visions of India in Central Asian Modernism: The Work of Abdurauf Fitrat,” in Looking at the Coloniser, eds. Hans Harder and Beate Eschment (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004), 253-274.
“Nation into History: The Origins of National Historiography in Central Asia,” in Devout Societies vs. Impious States? Transmitting Islamic Learning in Russia, Central Asia and China through the Twentieth Century, ed. Stéphane A. Dudoignon (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2004), 127-145.
“A Secular Islam: Nation, State, and Religion in Uzbekistan,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 35 (2003): 573-598.
- Reprinted in: Andrew Rippin, ed., World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (London: Routledge, 2008), vol. 1, pp. 304-334.
- Italian translation: “Un Islam laico: nazione, stato e religione in Uzbekistan,” Nazioni e regioni, no. 2 (2013), 111-160; http://www.nazionieregioni.it/.
“Ottoman ‘Islamism’ between the Ümmet and the Nation,” Archivum Ottomanicum, 19 (2001): 197-211.
“Nationalizing the Revolution: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920,” in A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, ed. Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 145-162.
“Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism,” Kritika, n.s. 1 (2000): 691-699.
- Reprinted in: Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Alexander Martin, eds., Orientalism and Empire in Russia (Bloomington: Slavica, 2006), 23-31.
- Russian translation: “Rossiiskaia istoriia i spor ob orientalizme,” in Rossiiskaia Imperiia v zarubezhnoi istoriografii: raboty poslednikh let (Moscow: Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2005), 311-323.
“Society and Politics in Bukhara, 1868–1920,” Central Asian Survey 19 (2000): 367-396.
“The Emergence of a Modern Central Asian Historical Consciousness,” in Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State, ed. Thomas Sanders (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999), 433-452.
“Representations of Russia in Central Asian Jadid Discourse,” in Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700–1917, ed. Dan Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), 188-202.
“Tashkent 1917: Muslim Politics in Revolutionary Turkestan,” Slavic Review 55 (1996): 270-296.
“Printing, Publishing, and Reform in Tsarist Central Asia,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 26 (1994): 187-200.
Shorter Works
“Turkestan’s Place in the Russian Empire,” forthcoming in Russian History.
“The Quest for Autonomy in Turkestan: Hopes, Challenges, and Tragedy,” Petersburg Historical Journal, 2020, no. 2, 63-78.
“Modern Uzbekistan,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. David Ludden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019); doi: 10.1093/acrefore /9780190277727.013.249.
“Chem byla revoliutsiia v Turkestane?” Neprikosnovennyi zapas: debaty o politike i kul’ture, no. 115 (2017), 165 – 177 (https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines /neprikosnovennyy_zapas/115_nz_5_2017/article/19411/?sphrase_id=95958)
“Response” [to Book Discussion of Making Uzbekistan], Central Asian Affairs, 4 (2017), 93‑96. “National Consolidation as Soviet Work: The Origins of Uzbekistan,” Ab Imperio, 2016, no. 4, 185-205.
[With Manu Goswami, Gabrielle Hecht, Anna Krylova, Elizabeth F. Thompson, Jonathan R. Zatlin, and Andrew Zimmerman], “AHR Conversation—History after the End of History: Re-Conceptualizing the Twentieth Century,” American Historical Review 121 (2016), 1566-1607.
“The Roots of Uzbekistan: Nation Making in the Early Soviet Union,” CAP Papers 161 (Central Asia Program, IERES, George Washington University, April 2016), http://centralasiaprogram.org/blog/2016/05/18/the-roots-of-uzbekistan-nation-making-in-the-early-soviet-union/.
- Reprinted in: Uzbekistan: Political Order, Societal Changes, and Cultural Transformations, ed. Marlène Laruelle (Washington, D.C.: The George Washington University, Central Asia Program, 2017), 1-4.
“Conflict and Authority Among Central Asian Muslims in the Era of the Russian Revolution,” in Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, ed. Michael Brenner, Martin Schulze Wessel and Franziska Davies (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015), 127-140.
“Islam and the State in Central Asia,” Turkish Review 5:5 (2015), 402-408.
“Ulama and the State in Uzbekistan,” Asian Journal of Social Science, 42 (2014): 517–535.
“Al-Jadīdīya fī Āsiyā al-wusṭā: uṣūluhā wa dawruhā fī’l ʿahad al-sūfiyatī,” in Āsiyā al-Wusṭā wa Shumāl al-Qawqāz: al-salafiyūn—al-shīʿa—al-jihādiyūn (Dubai: Al Mesbar Studies and Research Centre, 2014), 37-55.
- English version: “Jadidism in Central Asia: Origins, Development, and Fate Under the Soviets,” https://mesbar.org/jadidism-in-central-asia-origins-development-and-fate-under-the-soviets/.
“Islam et État en Asie centrale postsoviétique,” in Éclats d’empires: Asie centrale, Caucase, Afghanistan, ed. Marlène Laruelle and Sebatien Peyrouse (Paris: Fayard, 2013), 117-124.
“Uzbekistan: rozhdenie natsii,” Neprikosnovennyi zapas: debaty o politike i kul’ture, no. 78 (2011), 34-46.
“Politika antiterrorizma v Tsentral’noi Azii,” Neprikosnovennyi zapas: debaty o politike i kul’ture, no. 66 (2009), 99-124.
“From Noble City to People’s Republic: Re-Imagining Bukhara, 1900-1924,” in Historical Dimensions of Islam: Essays in Honor of R. Stephen Humphreys, ed. James E. Lindsay and Jon Armajani (Princeton: Darwin Press, 2009), 201-216.
“Introduction: Locating the (Post-) Colonial in Soviet History,” Central Asian Survey, 26 (2007): 465-473.
“Being Muslim in Soviet Central Asia, or An Alternative History of Muslim Modernity,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, n.s. 18:2 (2007): 123-143 (online at http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/018226ar).
“What Jadidism Was, and What it Wasn’t: The Historiographical Adventures of a Term,” Central Eurasian Studies Review, 5:2 (2006): 3-7.
“L’Islam et l’État post-soviétique en Asie centrale,” La revue internationale et stratégique, nº 64 (Winter 2006-07): 101-109.
“The Fascination of Revolution: Central Asian Intellectuals, 1917-1924,” in Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia, ed. Tomohiko Uyama (Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, 2007), 137-152.
“Theories and Politics of Central Asian Identities,” Ab Imperio, 2005, no. 4, 313-326.
“Sovremennyi kharakter identichnosti: ob «Arkheologii uzbekskoi identichnosti» A. Il’khamova,” Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 2005, no. 1, 78-82.
- English version: “The Modernity of Identity: On A. Ilkhamov’s ‘Archeology of Uzbek Identity’,” Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia 44:4 (2006): 86-91.
“Islam in Contemporary Central Asia,” in Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, ed. R. Michael Feener (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004), 133-159.
“Islam,” in Encyclopedia of Russian History (New York: Macmillan, 2004), 2:678-683.
“Bukhārā: namūna-yi hamzīstī miyān-i Īrān va Tūrān dar qarn-i bīstam,” in Jahān-i Īrānī va Tūrān, ed. Marziya Sāqiyān (Tehran: Markaz-i Asnād va Tārīkh-i Dīplumāsī, 2002), 289-300.
“Bukhara,” “Central Asia, Modern,” “Jadidism,” “Tashkent,” and “Uzbekistan—Education System,” in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, 6 vols. (New York: Scribners Reference, 2002).
“Jadidism and the Elaboration of New Identities in Central Asia,” in Hasan Celâl Güzel, C. Cem Oğuz, and Osman Karatay, eds. The Turks, 6 vols. (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Publications, 2002), 5:842-849.
Turkish translation: “Ceditçilik ve Orta Asya’daki Yeni Kimliklerin Ayrıntılarına Giriş,” in Hasan Celâl Güzel, Kemal Çiçek, and Salim Koca, eds., Türkler, 20 vols. (Istanbul: Yeni Türkiye Dergisi, 2002), 18:636-651.
“Recent Work in Archives in Uzbekistan and Russia,” Central Eurasian Studies Review, 1:1 (2002): 18-19.
“Osman Khoja and the Origins of Jadidism in Bukhara,” in Türkistan’da Yenilik Hareketleri ve İhtilaller, 1900-1924: Osman Hoca Anısına İncelemeler / Reform Movements and Revolutions in Turkistan, 1900-1924: Studies in Honour of Osman Khoja, ed. Timur Kocaoğlu (Haarlem: SOTA, 2001), 287-296.
“Nashriyāt-e Āsiyā-ye Miyāneh pīsh az davlat-e sūsiyālistī,” trans. Mohsen Jaʿfarī Maẕhab, Rasāneh, 12:3 (2001): 146‑149.
“Ideia progressa v filosofkoi mysli dzhadidov: novoe napravlenie vo vzgliade na mir,” in Markaziy Osiyo XX asr boshida: islohotlar, yangilanish, taraqqiyot va mustaqillik uchun kurash (Tashkent: Ma’naviyat, 2001), 28-32.
“The Central Asian Factor,” The Nation (Lahore), 18 October 2001.
“Your Asia or Mine? Central Asian Studies in Post-Soviet Times,” NewsNet: The Newsletter of the AAASS, 39:5 (November 1999): 1-3.
“Jadidism in Central Asia: Islam and Modernity in the Russian Empire,” ISIM Newsletter (Leiden), no. 2, March 1999, 16.
Op-ed article, The Star-Tribune (Minneapolis), May 1995.
Review Essays and Research Notes
[With Tim Epkenhans, Edward Lemon, John Heathershaw, and David W. Montgomery], “Researching Islam, Security, and the State in Central Asia: A Round Table Discussion,” Review of Middle East Studies, 50:1 (2016), 3–17.
“Searching for Muslim Voices in Post-Soviet Archives,” Ab Imperio, 2008, no. 4, 302-312.
“The Life and Work of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (A Review Article),” Annual of Urdu Studies, 23 (2008): 256-269.
“Between Empire and Revolution: New Work on Soviet Central Asia,” Kritika, 7 (2006): 865-884.
“Muslim Printers in Tsarist Central Asia: A Research Note,” Central Asian Survey, 11:3 (1992): 113-118.
- Persian translation: “Chāpkhānehdārān-e musulmān dar Āsiyā‑yi markazī‑yi daureh‑yi tazārī,” trans. Mohsen Ja‘farī Mażhab, Muṭāli‘āt-i Āsiyā‑yi markazī va Qafqāz, no. 25 (1999): 133-140.
“The Residential Quarter in Bukhara before the Revolution (The Work of O. A. Sukhareva),” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 25 (1991): 15-24.
Translations
“The World of Journalism, Or the Reasons for the Establishment of the Newspaper To‘jjor” [Matbuot olami, yoki vajhi ta’sis-i g‘azita-i To‘jjor]. Translated from Uzbek. In The Modern Middle East: A Documentary History, ed. Benjamin C. Fortna, Camron Amin, and Elizabeth B. Frierson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 104-107.
Munawwar Qari Abdurrashid Khan oghli, “What is Reform?” [Isloh na demakdadur]. Translated from Uzbek. In Modernist Islam: A Sourcebook, 1840-1940, ed. Charles Kurzman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 227-228.
[With Ken Petersen] Abdulhamid Sulaymon Cho‘lpon, “Doctor Muhammad-Yar” [Do‘xtur Muhammadyor]. Translated from Uzbek. In Modernist Islam: A Sourcebook, 1840-1940, ed. Charles Kurzman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 264-269.
Blog Posts and Other Brief Online Publications
“‘Buxoro inqilobi’ning 100 yilligi: Buxoro Respublikasi bugungi O’zbekistonga asos bo’lgan milliy davlat edi!” Ozodlik Radiosi (Radio Liberty Uzbek), 3 September 2020, https://www.ozodlik.org/a/30818994.html.
“Sad solagii Jumhurii Bukhoro,” Radio-i Ozodī (Radio Liberty Tajik), 2 September 2020, https://www.ozodi.org/a/30816438.html.
“Sad soli ‘inqilob’-i Bukhoro,” Radio-i Ozodī (Radio Liberty Tajik), 31 August 2020, https://www.ozodi.org/a/30807150.html.
“‘Buxoro inqilobi’ning 100 yilligi: Amir Olimxon boylik va haramiga oid afsona va haqiqat,” Ozodlik Radiosi (Radio Liberty Uzbek), 31 August 2020, https://www.ozodlik.org/a/30813378.html.
“The Age of Karimov in Context,” Uzbekistan Forum, www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/ 1_Khalid_final220916.pdf.
“«Rassmatrivat’ islam kak odnorodnoe iavlenie – vse ravno chto schitat’ khristianstvo edinym tselym»,” Fergana.Ru, 4 March 2011: http://www.fergananews.com /articles/6912
Op-ed pieces on the Central Eurasia Project website (now Eurasianet.org), 2000.
Recent Book Reviews
Jeff Sahadeo, Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes, forthcoming.
Alexander Morrison, Cloé Drieu, and Aminat Chokobaeva, eds., The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), in Russian Review, forthcoming.
Prashant Kidambi, Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), in Journal of Asian Studies, forthcoming.
Alun Thomas, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018), in Revolutionary Russia, 33 (2020), 282-284.
Leah Feldman, On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018), in Central Asian Survey, 39 (2020), 438-439.
Artemy Kalinovsky, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2018), in Central Asian Affairs, 7 (2020), 111-113.
Julie McBrien, From Belonging to Belief: Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), in National Identities, 22 (2020), doi 10.1080/14608944.2020.1728943.
Julia Obertreis, Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991 (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2017), in Kritika, 23 (2019), 644-648.
Al’bert Kaganovich, Druz’ia ponevole: Rossiia i bukharskie evrei 1800–1917 (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2016), in East European Jewish Affairs, 49 (2019), 90-92.
Victoria Clement, Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914–2014 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), in Russian Review, 78 (2019), 347-348.
Eren Tasar, Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), in Slavic Review, 77 (2018), 1035-1037.
Botakoz Kassymbekova, Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), in Slavic Review, 76 (2017), 1125-27.
Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli, Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014), in The Journal of Religion, 96 (2016), 411-412.
James H. Meyer, Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), in International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48 (2016), 397-399.
A. Sal’nikova and D. M. Galiullina, Tatarskaia «alifba»: natsional’nyi bukvar’ v mul’tikul’turnom prostranstve (konets XIX–nachalo XXI vv.) (Moscow: Rossiiskaia Akademiia Obrazovaniia, 2014), in Russian Review, 75 (2016), 156-157.
Cloé Drieu, Fictions nationales: Cinéma, empire et nation en Ouzbékistan (1919-1937) (Paris: Karthala, 2013), in Cahiers du monde russe, 55 (2014), 489-491.
Nazir ad-Durgeli, Uslada umov v biografiiakh dagestanskikh uchenykh: Dagestanskie uchenye X–XX vv. i ikh sochineniia, translated from Arabic into Russian by A. R. Shikhsaidov, edited by A. R. Shikhsaidov, M. Kemper, and A. K. Bustanov (Moscow: Marjani, 2012), in Middle East Literatures, 17 (2014), 299-300.
Isa Blumi, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State (London: Routledge, 2012), in Slavic Review, 73 (2014), 916-917.
Zulxumor Mirzayeva, XX asr o’zbek adabiyotining Amerikada o’rganilishi (Tashkent: Fan, 2011), in Central Asian Survey, 33 (2014), 129-130.