The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times
Title: The Heart of Asia
A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times
Release Date: 2018-08-23
Type book: Text
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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GŪR AMĪR, THE MAUSOLEUM OF TAMERLANE
THE HEART OF ASIA
A History of Russian Turkestan
and the Central Asian Khanates
from the Earliest Times
BY
FRANCIS HENRY SKRINE
FORMERLY A MEMBER OF H.M. INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE
AND
EDWARD DENISON ROSS, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF PERSIAN AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
WITH 19 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SKETCHES BY VERESTCHAGIN
NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS AND 2 MAPS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET, W.C.
LONDON
1899
v
CONTENTS
| PART I | ||
| FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION | ||
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER | 3 |
| II. | BACTRIANS AND PARTHIANS | 10 |
| III. | THE HUNS AND THE YUÉ-CHI | 14 |
| IV. | THE SĀSĀNIDES, THE EPHTHALITES, AND THE TURKS | 22 |
| V. | THE RISE OF ISLAM AND INVASIONS OF THE ARABS | 34 |
| VI. | THE FIRST EASTERN CAMPAIGNS OF KUTAYBA IBN MUSLIM | 45 |
| VII. | KUTAYBA’S LAST CAMPAIGNS | 56 |
| VIII. | KUTAYBA’S FALL AND DEATH | 63 |
| IX. | KUTAYBA’S SUCCESSORS | 67 |
| X. | NASR IBN SAYYĀR AND ABŪ MUSLIM | 77 |
| XI. | KHORĀSĀN UNDER THE FIRST ABBĀSIDS | 84 |
| XII. | THE CALIPHATES OF EL-MANSŪR, EL-HĀDI, AND HĀRŪN ER-RASHĪD | 90 |
| XIII. | DECLINE OF THE CALIPHS’ AUTHORITY IN KHORĀSĀN. THE TĀHIRIDES | 98 |
| XIV. | THE SAFFĀRIDES AND THE RISE OF THE SĀMĀNIDES | 103 |
| XV. | THE SĀMĀNIDES | 109 |
| XVI. | THE KARA-KHĀNIDES, OR UÏGHŪRS | 114 |
| XVII. | THE GHAZNAVIDES AND THE RISE OF THE SELJŪKS | 123 |
| XVIII. | THE SELJŪKS | 129 |
| XIX. | SULTAN SANJAR AND THE KARA-KHITĀYS | 136 |
| XX. | THE KHWĀRAZM-SHĀHS | 144 |
| XXI. | CHINGIZ KHĀN | 149 |
| XXII. | MONGOL INVASION OF CENTRAL ASIA | 155 |
| XXIII. | THE LINE OF CHAGHATĀY | 160 |
| XXIV. | TĪMŪR, THE GREAT AMĪR | 165 |
| XXV. | THE SUCCESSORS OF TĪMŪR | 173vi |
| XXVI. | THE SHAYBĀNIDES | 182 |
| XXVII. | THE HOUSE OF ASTRAKHAN | 194 |
| XXVIII. | THE HOUSE OF MANGIT | 204 |
| XXIX. | AMĪR NASRULLAH, A BOKHĀRAN NERO | 211 |
| PART II | ||
| RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA | ||
| I. | THE MAKING OF RUSSIA | 225 |
| II. | CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF ASIA | 238 |
| III. | THE STRUGGLE WITH THE KHĀNATES | 250 |
| IV. | TURKOMANIA AND THE TURKOMANS | 262 |
| V. | THE LAST STEP IN ADVANCE | 284 |
| VI. | THE CENTRAL ASIAN RAILWAYS | 306 |
| VII. | TRANSCASPIA IN 1898 | 320 |
| VIII. | ASKABAD AND MERV | 340 |
| IX. | BOKHĀRĀ, A PROTECTED NATIVE STATE | 357 |
| X. | SAMARKAND | 386 |
| XI. | FRIENDS OR FOES? | 408 |
| APPENDIX I | 417 | |
| APPENDIX II | 424 | |
| INDEX | 429 | |
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | ||
| GŪR AMĪR, THE MAUSOLEUM OF TAMERLANE (VERESTCHAGIN) | Frontispiece | |
| SO-CALLED SARCOPHAGUS OF ALEXANDER IN CONSTANTINOPLE | (photograph) | 9 |
| THE RAHLA, OR READING DESK, OUTSIDE THE MOSQUE OF BĪBĪ KHĀNŪM, SAMARKAND | (photograph) | 38 |
| CENTRAL ASIAN TYPES | (VERESTCHAGIN) | 47 |
| GENERAL VIEW OF BOKHĀRĀ | (photograph) | 66 |
| RELIGIOUS MENDICANT, BOKHĀRĀ | (VERESTCHAGIN) | 92 |
| A JEWISH CHILD OF BOKHĀRĀ | (photograph) | 106 |
| CENTRAL ASIAN TYPES | (VERESTCHAGIN) | 124 |
| CENTRAL ASIAN TYPES | ” | 126 |
| MAUSOLEUM OF SULTAN SANJAR, OLD MERV | (photograph) | 138 |
| NOMADS CHANGING CAMP | (VERESTCHAGIN) | 151 |
| DERVISHES OF THE NAKSHABANDI ORDER | ” | 170 |
| INTERIOR OF TAMERLANE’S MAUSOLEUM | (photograph) | 172 |
| THE TOMB OF TAMERLANE | ” | 172 |
| INTERIOR OF A KIRGHIZ TENT | (VERESTCHAGIN) | 183 |
| DECORATIONS IN THE SHĀH ZINDA, SAMARKAND | (photograph) | 192 |
| COURTYARD OF A HOUSE IN SAMARKAND | ” | 212 |
| ENTRANCE TO THE SHĀH ZINDA, SAMARKAND | ” | 235 |
| THE SEA OF SAND IN THE KARA-KUM DESERT (1) | ” | 263 |
| THE SEA OF SAND IN THE KARA-KUM DESERT (2) | ” | 263 |
| TURKOMAN MUSICIANS | ” | 283 |
| VIEW FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE FORT OF GEOK TEPPE | (photograph) | 292viii |
| DIVANIS, OR DERVISHES | (VERESTCHAGIN) | 307 |
| GENERAL KURAPATKINE | (photograph) | 323 |
| A GROUP OF TURKOMANS AT ASKABAD STATION | ” | 345 |
| RUINS OF OLD MERV | ” | 353 |
| HINDUS OF BOKHĀRĀ | ” | 367 |
| THE MINĀR KALĀN AT BOKHĀRĀ | ” | 374 |
| PRISONERS OF THE AMĪR OF BOKHĀRĀ | ” | 376 |
| A BOKHĀRĀ BEAUTY AND HER TWO CHILDREN | ” | 382 |
| SHĪR DĀR MADRASA, SAMARKAND | ” | 390 |
| THE BĪBĪ KHĀNŪM | ” | 392 |
| THE MARKET NEAR BĪBĪ KHĀNŪM, SAMARKAND | ” | 398 |
| BAZAAR POLITICS | (VERESTCHAGIN) | 414 |
| MAPS | ||
| THE ADVANCE OF RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA | ||
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