A history of the Tajiks : Iranians of the east / Richard Foltz.
Material type: TextSeries: Library of Middle East historyPublisher: London ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2019Copyright date: �2019Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 231 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781788316514
- 1788316517
- 9781788316521
- 1788316525
- 9781788316538
- 1788316533
- Iranians of the east
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- DK855.5.T3 F65 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who are the Tajiks? -- The Prehistory of the Tajiks -- Sogdians and Bactrians -- The Samanid Empire and the new Persian Renaissance -- Tajiks and Turks -- The Soviet Period -- The Republic of Tajikistan -- Tajiks beyond the borders : Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China, and the Diaspora -- What future for the Tajiks? -- Excursus : Afghanistan at a stone's throw.
"In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. In eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana; analyses the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity; and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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