Yuri Bregel
Articles by Yuri Bregel
- KHIVA
A version of this article is available in print Volume XVI, Fascicle 5, pp. 530-539 KHIVA, a city in the…
- CENTRAL ASIA vii. In the 18th-19th Centuries
CENTRAL ASIA vii. In the 18th-19th Centuries I. From the fall of the Toqay-Timurids through the Russian conquest. By the…
- BUKHARA iv. Khanate of Bukhara and Khorasan
BUKHARA iv. The Khanate of Bukhara and Khorasan The first distinctive political separation of Transoxania from Persia took place in…
- BUKHARA iii. After the Mongol Invasion
BUKHARA iii. After the Mongol Invasion The Mongol period. The city of Bukhara was conquered by Chingiz Khan on 4…
- BŪSTĀNĪ, MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD
BŪSTĀNĪ, MĪRZĀ MOḤAMMAD ʿABD-AL-ʿAẒĪM SĀMĪ (commonly known as Mīrzā ʿAẓīm Sāmī), poet and historian of Bukhara, born ca. 1256/1840 in…
- BĪGĀR
BĪGĀR, BĪGĀRĪ, a term of taxation in Iran and central Asia, generally meaning “corvée,” the duty of supplying workers without…
- BEHBŪDĪ
BEHBŪDĪ, MOLLĀ MAḤMŪD ḴᵛĀJA, one of the leaders of the Jadīd movement in Central Asia in the 1900s-1910s, journalist and…
- IVANOV, PAVEL PETROVICH
IVANOV, PAVEL PETROVICH, (b. Siberia, February 1893; d. Leningrad, 3 February 1942; FIGURE 1). In the early 1900s his family…
- ILBĀRS KHAN
ILBĀRS KHAN, name of two rulers of Ḵᵛārazm in the 16th and 18th centuries. (1) Ilbārs Khan b. Buräkä (or…
- HISTORIOGRAPHY xii. CENTRAL ASIA
HISTORIOGRAPHY xii. CENTRAL ASIA The first Persian historical work produced in Central Asia (Transoxiana, Ḵʷārazm, Farḡāna, and Eastern Turkestan) was…
- ḤESĀR (1)
ḤEṢĀR, the name of a region in the eastern part of Transoxania, in the upper course of the Sorḵān Daryā…
- STOREY, Charles Ambrose
STOREY, Charles Ambrose, British orientalist, author of the bio-bibliographical survey of Persian literature (b. Blackhill, Durham, England, 21 August 1888,…
- ABU’L-KHAYRIDS
ABU’L-KHAYRIDS, the name used for the dynasty that ruled the khanate of Bukhara in 906-1007/1500-99. Until recently, this dynasty was…