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Publications by Uli Schamiloglu

Ph.D. Dissertation
"Tribal Politics and Social Organization in the Golden Horde" (Columbia University, 1986). [download PDF version] (13.3MB)

Bibliography
Books

1. The Golden Horde: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Western Eurasia, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Centuries (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, in press). Publication expected in 2006 (it's about time, Uli!)

2. Muslims in Russia, The Growth and Influence of Islam In the Nations of Asia and Central Asia (Philadelphia: Mason Crest Publishers, in press [2006]). [ISBN-13: 978-1-59084-884-5; ISBN-10: 1-59084-884-5]

(research in progress, hopefully they will all appear if I live long enough... )

3. The Clear Path to Heaven: A 14th Century Turkic Manual of Islam from the Golden Horde
4. Turkic and Tatar Thought in the Liberal Age
5. The New World Meets the Heart of the Old World: Central Eurasia and the Columbian Exchange
6. The Old Turkic Runic Inscriptions: Texts, Translation, Grammar
7. Introduction to Turkic Historical and Comparative Linguistics
8. The Turkic Languages: Grammatical Sketches and Chrestomathy

Edited Volumes
1. Istoçnikovedenie istorii Ulusa Djuçi (Zolotoy Ordï). Ot Kalki do Astraxani, 1223-1556, ed. M.A. Usmanov, I. Vashari, X. Gëken'yan, D.M. Isxakov, V.M. Ostapçuk, R.S. Xakimov, Yu. Shamil'oglu, A.A. Arslanova (Kazan: Institut Istorii im. Sh. Mardjani-Kazanskiy Gosudarstvennïy Universitet, 2002).

Translations
1. Wayne Eastep, Alma Kunanbay, Gareth L. Steen, and William McCaffery, Soul of Kazakhstan. Translated from Russian & Kazak by Aylin Abayhan and Uli Schamiloglu (Easten Press, 2001). [ISBN: 0970693907]

Books published by the Turko-Tatar Press (Editor: Uli Schamiloglu)
1. Suzan H. Akkan, Dictionary of Turkish Acronyms and Abbreviations. A Selected List, 1928-1998 (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, 1999).

2. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, trans. Ender Gürol, The Time Regulation Institute (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, 2001).

(in progress )

3. Nikolai N. Karazin, trans. Anthony Sariti, In the Distant Confines (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, in press).

4. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, trans. Ender Gurol, Peace at Heart (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, in press).

5. Anthony Qualin, Eurasian Cultural Space in Pulatov and Aitmatov (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, in press).

6. Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, trans. Joseph Jacobson, The Outsider.

7. Ossetian Nart Sagas, trans. Walter May, ed. Tamerlane Salbiev and John Colarusso.

8. Alessio Bombaci, trans. Kathleen R.F. Griffin-Burrill, ed. Uli Schamiloglu, The Literature of the Turks: A History (Madison: Turko-Tatar Press, in preparation).

(& additional works in preparation)

Articles (PDF versions require Adobe Acrobat Reader)

1. "The Name of the Pechenegs in Ibn Hayyân's Al-muqtabas", Turks, Hungarians and Kipchaks. A Festschrift in Honor of Tibor Halasi-Kun, ed. P. Oberling, Journal of Turkish Studies 8 (1984), pp. 215-222.[download PDF version]

2. "The Qaraçi Beys of the Later Golden Horde: Notes on the Organization of the Mongol World Empire", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 4 (1984), pp. 283-297. [download PDF version]

3. "The Tatar Public Center and Current Tatar Concerns", Report on the USSR 1:51 (December 22, 1989), pp. 11-15. [download PDF version]

4. "The Formation of a Tatar Historical Consciousness: Sihabäddin Märcani and the Image of the Golden Horde", Central Asian Survey 9:2 (1990), pp. 39-49. [download PDF version]

5. "Tatar halk merkezi (TOTs)", Yeni Düsünce (Ankara), March 23, 1990. [translation of 3.]

6. "The End of Volga Bulgarian", Varia Eurasiatica. Festschrift für Professor András Róna-Tas (Szeged, 1991), pp. 157-163. [download PDF version]

7. "Formirovanie istoriçeskogo soznaniya tatar: Shigabuddin Mardjani i obraz Zolotoy Ordï", Tatarstan 1991:10, pp. 21-29. [translation of 4.]

8. "The Umdet ül-ahbar and the Turkic Sources of the Golden Horde and the Later Golden Horde", Central Asian Monuments, ed. H.B. Paksoy (Istanbul: Isis Press, 1992), pp. 81-93. [download PDF version]

9. "Whither Tatarstan?", Perspectives on Change 1:3 (June 5, 1992), pp. 14-21. Published by the Center for Post-Soviet Studies. [download PDF version]

10. "Preliminary Remarks on the Role of Disease in the History of the Golden Horde", Central Asian Survey 12:4 (1993), pp. 447-457. [download PDF version]

11. trans. A. Arslanova and I. Izmaylov, "'Karaçi bei' pozdney Zolotoy Ordï: Zametki po organizatsii mongol'skoy mirovoy istorii", Iz istorii Zolotoy Ordï (Kazan, 1993), pp. 44-60. [translation of 2.]

12. "Bolgar tele kaya kitkän?", Idel 1994:4, pp. 46-48. [translation of 6.]

13. "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. [download PDF version] OR [download PDF original in English]

14. "Turk Dillerinde Yardimci Fiiller Sorunu", Uluslararasi Türk Dili Kongresi 1988 (Ankara: Turk Dil Kurumu, 1996), pp. 153-168. [download PDF version] OR [download PDF original in English]

15. "Ictihad or Millat?: Reflections on Bukhara, Kazan, and the Legacy of Russian Orientalism", Reform Movements and Revolutions in Turkistan: 1900-1924. Studies in Honour of Osman Khoja / Türkistan'da Yenilik Hareketleri ve Ihtilaller: 1900-1924. Osman Hoca Anisina Incelemeler, ed. Timur Kocaoglu (Haarlem: SOTA, 2001), pp. 347-368. [download PDF version]

16. "We Are Not Tatars! The Invention of a Bulgar Identity", Néptörténet - Nyelvtörténet. A 70 éves Róna-Tas András köszöntése, ed. László Károly and Éva Nagy Kincses (Szeged, 2001), pp. 137-153. [download PDF version]

17."Tatarskiy mejdunarodnïy universitet", trans. Damir Isxakov, Zvezda Povolj'ya (August 30, 2001).[download PDF translation into Tatar] OR [download PDF original in English]

17. "Altin Ordu", trans. Bülent Kenes, Türkler (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayinlari, 2002), viii, pp. 412-428.

18. "The Golden Horde", The Turks (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayinlari, 2002), ii, pp. 819-834.

19. "ABD'de Avrasya Çalismalarinin Durumu" / "The State of Eurasian Studies in the USA", proceedings of the Uluslararasi Türkoloji ve Türk Tarihi Sempozyumu (Ankara: Yeni Türkiye Yayinlari). See: http://www.yeniturkiye.com/symposium.asp?id=14

20. "Napravleniya v issledovanii Zolotoy Ordï", Istoçnikovedenie istorii Ulusa Djuçi (Zolotoy Ordï). Ot Kalki do Astraxani, 1223-1556, ed. M.A. Usmanov, I. Vashari, X. Gëken'yan, D.M. Isxakov, V.M. Ostapçuk, R.S. Xakimov, Yu. Shamil'oglu, A.A. Arslanova (Kazan: Institut Istorii im. Sh. Mardjani-Kazanskiy Gosudarstvennïy Universitet, 2002), pp. 15-29.[download PDF version] OR [download PDF original in English]

21. "The Islamic High Culture of the Golden Horde", The Golden Cycle. Proceedings of the John D. Soper Commemorative Conference on the Cultural Heritage of Central Asia. UCLA Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead, October 1-4, 1998, ed. Andras J.E. Bodrogligeti (Central Asia Information Project - Sahibqiran, 2002), pp. 200-215. [download PDF version]

22. "The Rise of the Ottoman Empire: The Black Death in Medieval Anatolia and its Impact on Turkish Civilization", Views From the Edge: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet, ed. Neguin Yavari, Lawrence G. Potter, and Jean-Marc Oppenheim (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), pp. 255-279. [download PDF version] OR [download a clearer PDF version of Map 1]

23. "The New World and its Impact on Turkic Lexicon and Culture", Tyurkskaya i smejnaya leksikologiya i leksikografiya (Sbornik k 70-letiyu Kenesbaya Musaeva) (Moscow: Institut Yazikoznaniya. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, 2004), pp. 231-250. [download PDF version]

(selected forthcoming works)

24. "Turkic Calques in Slavic: The Legacy of the Golden Horde", Altayskie yaziki i vostochnaya filologiya. Sbornik k 80-letiyu A.R. Tenisheva. [in press]

25. "Mi ne tatari! Izobretenie bulgarskoy identiçnosti", Mirkasim Usmanov Festschrift. [in press]

26. "To Be a Tatar or a Turk? Competing Identities in the Muslim Turkic World (Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries)", The Turkic World, ed. Ergun Cagatay (Istanbul: Tetragon). [in press]

27. "Tatars: Past, Present, and Future", proceedings of the conference "Tatarlar ve Tataristan". [submitted]

28. "Geçmiste, Gunumuzde ve Gelecekte Tatarlar", proceedings of the conference "Tatarlar ve Tataristan". [submitted]

29. "The Islamic High Culture of the Golden Horde", Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Islam in the Volga-Ural Region (Istanbul: Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture). [submitted]

30. "Fenomen tsivilizatsii Ulusa Djuçi", Istoriya Tatar s drevneyshix vremen v semi tomax: iii. Ulus Djuçi (Zolotaya Orda) XIII-ser. XV vv., Part V, Chapter 1. [submitted]

31. "Ekologiçeskie kataklizmi",Istoriya Tatar s drevneyshix vremen v semi tomax: iii. Ulus Djuçi (Zolotaya Orda) XIII-ser. XV vv., Part VI, Chapter 5.1. [submitted]

32. "Torgovlya", Istoriya Tatar s drevneyshix vremen v semi tomax: iii. Ulus Djuçi (Zolotaya Orda) XIII-ser. XV vv., Part IV, Chapter 2.4. [submitted]

33. "Sistema gospodstvuyushçix klanov i kurultaya", Istoriya Tatar s drevneyshix vremen v semi tomax: iii. Ulus Djuçi (Zolotaya Orda) XIII-ser. XV vv., Part IV, Chapter 4.2. [submitted]

34. "Stanovlenie srednevekovogo tatarskogo etnosa" (with I.L. Izmailov and D.M. Isxakov), IIstoriya Tatar s drevneyshix vremen v semi tomax: iii. Ulus Djuçi (Zolotaya Orda) XIII-ser. XV vv., Part IV, Chapter 5.0 (forthcoming).

35. "Ulus Kavrami ve Orta Asya Turk Cumhuriyetlerinde Kimligin (Yeniden) Tasarlanmasi (19.-21. yuzyillar)" (forthcoming).

36. "The Potato, the Russian, and the Kazak: The Origins of the Russian Colonization of the Kazak Steppe (An Essay in Comparative History)" (forthcoming).

37. "Coins Tell Their Own Story: Numismatic Evidence and the History of the Golden Horde and the Later Golden Horde", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Golden Horde and Its Successor States (Istanbul, 22-24 April 2005), ed. Timur Kocaoglu and Uli Schamiloglu (forthcoming).

Encyclopedia Articles and Notices

1. "Nogays", Encyclopedia of World Cultures, vi: Russia and Eurasia/China, I: Cultures of Russia and Eurasia, ed. P. Friedrich (New York, 1994), pp. 286-290.

2. "Kazan Khanate", The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. J.L. Esposito (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), ii, pp. 408-409.

3. Contributor for Central Asian history, The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd edition, ed. M.B. Norton and P. Gerardi (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), i, pp. 259-282: entries #9.63, 65, 76, 138, 152-156, 160-177, 179-180, 182-183, 185, 187-189, 191-195, 197-199, 201, 203-204, 208, 274-296, 309-322, 324-330, 344-350 (98 of total 350 annotated entries [168 entries submitted/99 accepted]).

4. "Azeri Language and Literature", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon et alia (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), i, p. 268.

5. "Ismail Bey Gaspirali", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon et alia (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), ii, p. 692.

6. "Mehmet Fuat Köprülü", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon et alia (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), ii, pp. 1040-1041.

7. "Turkish Historical Society", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon et alia (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), iv, pp. 1811-1812.

8. "Turkish Linguistic Society", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon et alia (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), iv, p. 1815.

9. "Turkology", Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon et alia (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), iv, p. 1817.

Translations

1. Utkir Hashimov, "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.

Book Reviews
1. "Zs. Kakuk: Kasantatarische Volkslieder, Auf Grund der Sammlung von Ignác Kúnos", Journal of the American Oriental Society 102 (1982), pp. 563-564.

2. "G. Dávid: A simontornyai szandzsák a 16. században", Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 7:2 (1983), p. 32.

3. "Zs. Kakuk: Hungarian Turcology 1945-19748, Bibliography", Journal of the American Oriental Society 104 (1984), p. 390.

4. "S. Balic: Die Kultur der Bosniaken, Supplement I: Inventar des bosnischen literarischen Erbes in orientalischen Sprachen", Journal of the American Oriental Society 104 (1984), p. 779.

5. "L. Vikár and G. Bereczki: Chuvash Folksongs", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 56 (1984), pp. 129-131. [published]

6. "D. Ludwig: Struktur und Gesellschaft des Chazaren-Reiches im Licht der schriftlichen Quellen", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 56 (1984), pp. 131-132. [published]

7. "Zentralasiatische Studien 13", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 56 (1984), p. 132.

8. "K. Röhrborn: Uigurisches Wörterbuch (fascicle 3)", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 57 (1985), pp. 176-177.

9. "A. Kappeler: Russlands erste Nationalitäten. Das Zarenreich und die Völker der Mittleren Wolga vom 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 58 (1986), pp. 166-167.

10. "I. Baski: A Preliminary Index to Rásonyi's Onomasticon Turcicum", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), pp. 222-223.

11. "V.I. Buganov & M.I. Avtokratova (Ed.): Posol'skaya kniga po svyazyam Rossii s Nogajskoy Ordoj 1489-1508 gg.", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 223.

12. "E.E. Erguvanli: The Function of Word Order in Turkish Grammar", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 223.

13. "J.R. Krueger: A Kazakh Newspaper Reader", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 224.

14. "A. Róna-Tas: Wiener Vorlesungen zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte Tibets", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 227.

15. "H.G. Schwarz: The Minorities of Northern China. A Survey", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 227.

16. "J.C. Street: On the 14th Century Punctuation of Mongolian in the Yüan-ch'ao pi-shih", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 225.

17. "I. Vásáry: Az Arany Horda", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 225.

18. "F.S. Xakimzjanov (Ed.): Istoriko-lingvisticheskij analiz staropis'mennïx pamjatnikov", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 224.

19. "F.S. Xakimzjanov & Sh.N. Asïlgaraev (Ed.): K formirovaniyu jazïka tatar Povolzh'ja i Priural'ya", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), p. 224.

20. "M. Weiers (Ed.): Die Mongolen. Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte und Kultur", Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 60 (1988), pp. 225-226.

21. "Z. Çelik: The Remaking of Istanbul. Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century", International Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 5:1 (1988), pp. 100-102.

22. "B. Forbes Manz: The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane", American Historical Review 96:2 (1991), pp. 577-578.

23. "E.A. Allworth: The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present. A Cultural History", Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 15:1 (1991), pp. 182-187.

24. "Iu. G. Alekseev: Osvobozhdenie Rusi ot ordynskogo iga", American Historical Review 97:1 (1992), pp. 181-182.

25. "Cyril E. Black et al.: The Modernization of Inner Asia", AACAR Bulletin 5:1 (1992), pp. 29-30.

26. "D. Sinor (Ed.): The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia", Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 16:1 (1992), pp. 113-116.

27. "Karl A. Krippes (Ed.): Kazakh (Qazaq)-English Dictionary", Journal of Central Asian Studies 2:1 (Fall/Winter 1997), pp. 73-75.

28. "Larry P. Goodson: Afghanistan's Endless War. State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban", Journal of Asian Studies.

29. "Ahmed Rashid: Taliban. Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia", Journal of Asian Studies. [?]

30. "Amjad Jaimoukha, The Circassians: A Handbook", Europe-Asia Studies. [published?]

(I hope you didn't fall asleep!)