Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Historical Timeline -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Who Are the Tajiks? -- 1 The Prehistory of the Tajiks -- The ancient Aryans -- The Oxus Civilization -- The religion of Zarathushtra -- The Aryan-Oxus synthesis -- 2 Sogdians and Bactrians -- Alexander in Central Asia -- The Seleucid Empire -- Nomadic invasions -- Connecting with China -- Sogdian trade -- Sogdian art
Central Asian Buddhism -- Muslim invasions -- Sogdians and Uighurs -- The Revolt of Muqanna' -- The end of Sogdian autonomy -- 3 The Samanid Empire and the New Persian Renaissance -- Neo-Persian literature -- Philosophy and science -- Sufism -- Trade and economy -- The rise of the Turks -- 4 Tajiks and Turks -- The Turk-Tajik symbiosis -- The Ghaznavids -- The Seljuks -- The Ghurids -- a Tajik dynasty -- The Mongols -- The Timurids -- The Uzbeks -- Growing Russian influence in Central Asia -- The Jadidist movement -- 5 The Soviet Period -- The redesigning of national identities
The creation of Soviet Tajikistan -- Reform and reaction in Afghanistan -- Development in the Tajik SSR -- Religion and popular customs -- Change and continuity in women's roles -- Cultural production during the Soviet period -- War in Afghanistan 1979-89 -- The fall of the Soviet Union -- Tajiks in the Uzbek SSR -- 6 The Republic of Tajikistan -- Building a national identity -- Islam, not Zoroastrianism -- 'Gigantomania' and the personality cult of the President -- From bad to worse: Tajikistan's economic decline -- Corruption and the drug trade -- The regression of women's rights
Culture and the arts -- 7 Tajiks in Uzbekistan -- From marginalization to active suppression -- Severed from the literary tradition -- Local dialects in search of a standard -- Who is a Tajik? -- Poetry: the keystone of Tajik-Persian identity -- Tojik+ in higher education -- Tajik media -- for those that want it -- The youth are the future -- Conclusion -- Excursus: Afghanistan at a Stone's Throw -- Conclusion: Differing Contexts, Manifold Challenges -- Tajiks in Afghanistan -- Taliban 2.0 -- Tajik migrant workers: a fluid diaspora -- Border disputes around Tajik enclaves in Kyrgyzstan
Preparing a dynastic succession -- Restiveness in Gorno-Badakhshan -- China's Pamiri 'Tajiks' -- What future for the Tajiks? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
Electronic reproduction.
Source of description (note)
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2023).
Author
Foltz, Richard C., 1961- author.
Title
A history of the Tajiks : Iranians of the east / Richard Foltz.
Publisher
London ; New York : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, [2023]
Edition
Second edition.
Type of content
text
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Series
Library of Middle East history
Library of Middle East history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2023).