Cover illustration: Grave marker in the cemetery at the shrine complex of Shopan Ata, Mangghïstau oblïsï, western Kazakhstan (2010, Devin DeWeese)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sela, Ron, editor. | Sartori, Paolo, 1975- editor. | DeWeese, Devin A., 1956- editor.
Title: Muslim religious authority in Central Eurasia / edited by Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori, Devin DeWeese.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. | Series: Brill’s Inner Asian library, 1566-7162 ; vol. 43 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022044610 (print) | LCCN 2022044611 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004510111 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004527096 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Islam—Asia, Central—History. | Authority—Religious aspects—Islam.
Classification: LCC BP63.A34 M837 2023 (print) | LCC BP63.A34 (ebook) | DDC 297.0958—dc23/ENG/20220928
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022044610
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022044611
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ISSN 1566-7162
ISBN 978-90-04-51011-1 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-52709-6 (e-book)
Copyright 2023 by Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori, and Devin DeWeese. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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