Central Asian 303- Civilization of Central Asia (Fall 2002)

Time & Room: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:30-3:45 PM – 145 Birge

Instructor: Uli Schamiloglu (Languages and Cultures of Asia)

Office: 1254 Van Hise, tel. 262-7141/262-3012

Office Hours: Thursday, 10:00-12:00

E-mail: uschamil@facstaff.wisc.edu

Course website: www.turko-tatar.com/ca303

Description

This course introduces the land of Central Asia, the traditional peoples and their lifestyles, the political and cultural history (including an emphasis on major literary works produced in Central Asia), and modern approaches to the study of the region. Readings for the course will include selections from historical and ethnographic handbooks, translations from Central Asian literature over the ages, and modern studies relating to Central Asia.

Following the tragic events of 9/11/2001 this course has been restructured for Spring 2002 to give a more coherent discussion of the role of religion–especially Islam–in the civilization of Central Asia. The final work in the syllabus by Ahmed Rashid has been chosen for reading and discussion in order to give students an opportunity to discuss current issues in the study of Central Asian Islam and to become better informed citizens of their country and the world.

Requirements

Undergraduates:

1. Mid-Term Examination (25%)

2. Final Examination (25%)

3. Paper #1 (6 pages) on Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road (25%)

4. Paper #2 (6 pages) on a work to be selected (25%)

· There will be two examinations (a take-home mid-term and a take-home final). NOTE: Each examination may be in two parts: a take-home identification and in-class multiple choice and/or essays.

· Paper #1(6 pages, 12 point type, double spaced) will be on Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road (recommended topics to be announced).

· Paper #2 (6 pages, 12 point type, double spaced) will be on one or more works from the syllabus on Central Asian literature, Islam in Central Asia (including Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia), or another work chosen in consultation with the instructor (recommended topics to be announced).

Graduates:

1. Mid-Term Examination (25%)

2. Final Examination (25%)

3. Research Paper (20 pages).

· In addition to the two examinations, graduate students will submit a substantial research paper on a topic relating to Central Asian civilization. Students will be responsible for identifying the most important literature in major research languages and for utilizing materials in those research languages which they command. They may be asked first to submit a review of a relevant sources and/or disciplinary work.

Required Readings and their Abbreviations

[* = in packet, ** = available as photocopy]

*Baburname	The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, ed.-trans. W.M. Thackston (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1995), pp. 33-74.
**Bacon	E.E. Bacon, Central Asians under Russian Rule. A Study in Culture Change (Ithaca, 1966).
*Baldick	Julian Baldick, Imaginary Muslims. The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia (New York, 1993), pp. 1-10 & 41-85.
**Foltz	Richard C. Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century (1999).
*Fuzÿlø	Fuzÿlø, Leylã and Mejnÿn, trans. S. Huri (London, 1970), pp. 149-195.
*Hashimov	Utkir Hashimov, trans. Uli Schamiloglu, “Life in a Dream”, Icarus 16: End of Empire: 15 New Works from the 15 Republics of the Former Soviet Union (Winter 1995), pp. 37-50. Translated from Uzbek.
Rashid	Ahmed Rashid, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
Schamiloglu	“The Islamic High Culture of the Golden Horde” (www.turko-tatar.com/ca303)
Schamiloglu	Uli Schamiloglu, “Mongol or Not?: The Rise of an Islamic Turkic Culture in Transoxiana” (www.turko-tatar.com/ca303)
*Schimmel	Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), pp. 228-258, 363-367.
Soucek	Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia (Cambridge, 2000).
*Uygur Khvãstvãnøft	Jes P. Asmussen, Manichaean Literature. Representative Texts, Chiefly from Middle Persian and Parthian Writings, Persian Heritage Series 22 (Delmar, 1975), pp. 69-77.
Whitfield	Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
Winner	T.G. Winner, The Oral Art and Literature of the Kazakhs of Russian Central Asia (Durham, 1958).
*Wisdom of Royal Glory	Yÿsuf Khãs¥s¥ H¥ãjib, trans. R. Dankoff, Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig). A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes (Chicago, 1983), pp. 39-52.

Syllabus

Week	Readings
Week 1 (September 3, 5)	Introduction: Peoples, Languages, Geography, and Climate background: Soucek, 1-45 Bacon, 1-28
Week 2 (September 10, 12)	Early Religions & Civilizations of Central Asia: Shamanism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism background: Soucek, 46-56 Foltz, 1-36 Winner, 54-60 Whitfield, 1-26
Week 3 (September 17, 19)	Early Religions & Civilizations of Central Asia: Buddhism background: Soucek, 66-67, 77-82 Foltz, 37-59 Whitfield, 113-222 www.turko-tatar.com/ca303
Week 4 (September 24, 26)	Early Religions & Civilizations of Central Asia: Nestorianism, Manichaeism background: Soucek, 66-67, 77-82 Foltz, 61-87 Whitfield, 27-54, 76-112 source: *Uygur Khvãstvãnøft, 69-77
Week 5 (October 1, 3)	Civilization & Daily Life in Medieval Central Asia (discussion of Whitfield readings)
Week 6 (October 8, 10) PAPER #1 DUE OCTOBER 8	The Islamization of Central Asia background: Soucek, 56-76, 83-101 Foltz, 89-109 source: *Wisdom of Royal Glory, 39-52
Week 7 (October 15, 17) MIDTERM OCTOBER 17	Islamic Religion & Civilization in Central Asia Down to the Mongol Invasions www.turko-tatar.com/ca303
Week 8 (October 22, 24)	Islamic Religion & Civilization in Central Asia: The Mongols, the Black Death & the Timurid Renaissance (13th-15th Centuries) background: Soucek, 103-148 Schamiloglu, “The Islamic High Culture of the Golden Horde” (www.turko-tatar.com/ca303) Schamiloglu, “Mongol or Not?: The Rise of an Islamic Turkic Culture in Transoxiana” (www.turko-tatar.com/ca303) source: *Baburname, 33-74
Week 9 (October 29, 31)	Islamic Religion & Civilization in Central Asia in the Modern Period (16th-19th Centuries): The Role of Sufism background: Soucek, 149-166, 177-193 Schimmel, 228-258, 363-367 source: *Baldick, 1-10 & 41-85 source: *Fuzÿlø, 149-195
Week 10 (November 5, 7)	Traditional Life & Oral Literature in Central Asia background: Soucek, 149-166, 177-193 Bacon, 29-91 Winner, 3-85
Week 11 (November 12, 14)	Traditional Life & Oral Literature in Central Asia under Russian Colonialism background: Soucek, 196-224 Bacon, 92-115 Winner, 86-132
Week 12 (November 19, 21)	Traditional Life & Oral Literature in Central Asia in the Soviet Period background: Soucek, 209-253 Bacon, 116-217 Winner, 133-257
Week 13 (November 26)	Literature & the Arts in Central Asia in the Soviet Period Hashimov Winner, 133-257
Week 14 (December 3, 5)	Central Asian Since Independence background: Soucek, 254-295 Rashid
Week 15 (December 10, 12) PAPER #2 DUE DECEMBER 10	The Islamic Threat in Central Asia? (discussion of Rashid)
FINAL EXAM: DECEMBER 15	Sunday, December 15, 2002 at 5:05 PM

Bibliography of Required & Selected Recommended Readings

Sadriddin Ainø, trans. George H. Hanna, Pages From My Own Story. Memoirs. (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1958).

Sadriddin Ainø et alia, ed. Shavkat Niyazi, At the Foot of the Blue Mountains. Stories by Tajik Authors (Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1984).

Chingiz Aitmatov, trans. John French, The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983).

Chingiz Aitmatov, “Farewell, Gyulsary!”, Tales of the Mountains and Steppes (Moscow, 1969), pp. 117-280.

Jes P. Asmussen, Manichaean Literature. Representative Texts, Chiefly from Middle Persian and Parthian Writings, Persian Heritage Series 22 (Delmar, 1975), pp. 69-77.

The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, ed.-trans. W.M. Thackston (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1995).

E.E. Bacon, Central Asians under Russian Rule. A Study in Culture Change (Ithaca, 1966).

Julian Baldick, Imaginary Muslims. The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia (New York, 1993).

A. Bombaci, “The Turkic Literatures. Introductory Notes on the History and Style”, Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta, ii, ed. P.N. Boratov (Wiesbaden, 1965), pp. XI-LXXI.

The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, ed. D. Sinor (Cambridge, 1990).

Central Asia, ed. G. Hambly (New York, 1969).

Central Asia. A Century of Russian Rule, ed. E.A. Allworth (New York, 1967). [Second edition published as Central Asia. One Hundred Twenty Years of Russian Rule by Duke University Press; third edition published as Central Asia. 130 Years of Russian Domination. A Historical Overview.]

Central Asian Monuments, ed H.B. Paksoy (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1992).

D. DeWeese, Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde. Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994).

Mirza Haydar Duðlat, Tarix-i Räþidi, trans. N. Elias and E.D. Ross, A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia (London, 1895).

Firdawsø, trans. Reuben Levy, The Epic of The Kings: Shah-Nama, The National Epic Of Persia (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967).

Richard C. Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century (1999).

Richard N. Frye, Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement (Norman: U. Oklahoma Press, 1965/Mazda, 1996).

Fuzÿlø, Leylã and Mejnÿn, trans. S. Huri (London, 1970).

Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples, Turcologica 9 (Wiesbaden, 1992).

A.T. Hatto, The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan (Kökötöydün as«ï). A Kirghiz Epic Poem, London Oriental Series 33 (Oxford, 1977).

Utkir Hashimov, trans. Uli Schamiloglu, “Life in a Dream”, Icarus 16: End of Empire: 15 New Works from the 15 Republics of the Former Soviet Union (Winter 1995), pp. 37-50. Translated from Uzbek.

Ata Malik Juvaini, trans. J.A. Boyle, The History of the World Conqueror, i-ii (Manchester, 1958/U. Washington, 1997).

The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, ed. L. Lewisohn (New York, 1992).

Theodore Craig Levin, The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).

R.D. McChesney, Waqf in Central Asia. Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 (Princeton, 1991).

Muslims in Central Asia. Expressions of Identity and Change, ed. Jo-Ann Gross (Durham: Duke University Press, 1992).

Narshakhø, The history of Bukhara, trans. Richard N. Frye (Cambridge, Mass., Mediaeval Academy of America, 1954).

Rabghÿzø, The Stories of the Prophets : Qisas al-anbiyã’. An Eastern Turkish Version, edited H.E.Boeschoten et alia (Leiden: Brill, 1995).

Karl Reichl, Singing the Past. Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).

Karl Reichl, Turkic Oral Epic Poetry: Traditions, Forms Poetic Structure, The Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition (New York: Garland, 1992).

M. Rywkin, Moscow's Muslim Challenge. Soviet Central Asia (Armonk, 1982). Second edition also published.

Uli Schamiloglu, “Beautés du mélange”, trans. V. Fourniau, Samarcande, 1400-1500. La cité-oasis de Tamerlan: coeur d’un Empire et d’une Renaissance, ed. V. Fourniau (Paris: Autrement, 1995), Chapter 12, pp. 191-203. [English original: “Mongol or Not?: The Rise of an Islamic Turkic Culture in Transoxiana”.]

Uli Schamiloglu, “Islamskaya tsivilizatsiya v Zolotoy Orde”, Proceedings of the Conference on Islam in the Volga Region [published]; “The Islamic High Culture of the Golden Horde”, Proceedings of the John D. Soper Commemorative Conference on the Cultural Heritage of Central Asia, ed. András J.E. Bodrogligeti [in press].

Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975).

Svat Soucek, A History of Inner Asia (Cambridge, 2000).

B. Spuler, trans. F.R.C. Bagley, “Central Asia: The Last Three Centuries of Independence”, Muslim World. A Historical Survey, vol. 3: The Last Great Muslim Empires (Leiden, 1969), pp. 219-259. [This volume reprinted in1995 as The Last Great Muslim Empires.]

Talat Tekin, A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic, Indiana University Publications, Uralic Altaic Series 69 (Bloomington, 1968), pp. 261-295.

Andreas Tietze, The Koman Riddles and Turkic Folklore (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966).

Yÿsuf Khãs¥s¥ H¥ãjib, trans. R. Dankoff, Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig). A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes (Chicago, 1983).

Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

T.G. Winner, The Oral Art and Literature of the Kazakhs of Russian Central Asia (Durham, 1958).

Central Asian 303- Civilization of Central Asia (Fall 2002)

Uygur Khvãstvãnøft	Jes P. Asmussen, Manichaean Literature. Representative Texts, Chiefly from Middle Persian and Parthian Writings, Persian Heritage Series 22 (Delmar, 1975), pp. 69-77.
Wisdom of Royal Glory	Yÿsuf Khãs¥s¥ H¥ãjib, trans. R. Dankoff, Wisdom of Royal Glory (Kutadgu Bilig). A Turko-Islamic Mirror for Princes (Chicago, 1983), pp. 39-52.
Baburname	The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, ed.-trans. W.M. Thackston (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1995), pp. 33-74.
Schimmel	Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), pp. 228-258, 363-367.
Baldick	Julian Baldick, Imaginary Muslims. The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia (New York, 1993), pp. 1-10 & 41-85.
Fuzÿlø	Fuzÿlø, Leylã and Mejnÿn, trans. S. Huri (London, 1970), pp. 149-195.
Hashimov	Utkir Hashimov, trans. Uli Schamiloglu, “Life in a Dream”, Icarus 16: End of Empire: 15 New Works from the 15 Republics of the Former Soviet Union (Winter 1995), pp. 37-50. Translated from Uzbek.