Devin DeWeese: List of Publications
Books
Islamization and Sacred Lineages in Central Asia: The Legacy of Ishaq Bab in Narrative and Genealogical Traditions, Vol. I: Opening the Way for Islam: The Ishaq Bab Narrative, 14th–19th Centuries / Islamizatsiia i sakral’nye rodoslovnye v Tsentral’noi Azii: Nasledie Iskhak Baba v narrativnoi i genealogicheskoi traditsiiakh, Tom 1: Otkrytie puti dlia islama: rasskaz ob Iskhak Babe, XIV–XIX vv. (with Ashirbek Muminov, Durbek Rahimjanov, and Shavasil Ziyadov, and an appendix by Alfrid Bustanov) (Almaty: Daik-Press, 2013).
Studies on Sufism in Central Asia, Variorum Collected Studies reprint series (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012), xviii + 354 pp.
– reprints of 12 articles originally published between 1988 and 2005 (including two with extensive corrections of errors introduced by the original publishers)
Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994; Series “Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions”).
– SUMMARY in Russian: Alsu Arslanova, “Obzor monografii Devina DeVize ‘Islamizatsiia i iskonnaia religiia v Zolotoi Orde: Baba Tiukles i obrashchenie v islam v istoricheskoi i èpicheskoi traditsii’,” Èkho vekov/Gasïrlar avazï (Kazan), 2001, No. 1–2, pp. 257–276.
Edited Volumes
Studies on Central Asian History in Honor of Yuri Bregel (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 167).
(co-editor): Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th–21st Centuries, ed. Devin DeWeese and Jo-Ann Gross (Leiden: Brill, 2018; Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch der Orientalistik, Section Eight, Uralic and Central Asian Studies, ed. Nicola Di Cosmo and Paolo Sartori, vol. 25).
(co-editor): Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Islam in Russia, Central Asia and Western China (19th–20th Centuries), special thematic double-issue of the Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient (59/1–2, 2016), ed. Jeff Eden, Paolo Sartori, and Devin DeWeese (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
(co-editor): Islamizatsiia i sakral’nye rodoslovnye v Tsentral’noi Azii: Nasledie Iskhak Baba v narrativnoi i genealogicheskoi traditsiiakh, Tom 2: Genealogicheskie gramoty i sakral’nye semeistva XIX–XXI vekov: nasab-nama i gruppy khodzhei, sviazannykh s sakral’nym skazaniem ob Iskhak Babe / Islamization and Sacred Lineages in Central Asia: The Legacy of Ishaq Bab in Narrative and Genealogical Traditions, Vol. 2: Genealogical Charters and Sacred Families: Nasab-namas and Khoja Groups linked to the Ishaq Bab Narrative, 19th–21st Centuries, ed. Ashirbek Muminov, Anke von Kügelgen, Devin DeWeese, and Michael Kemper (Almaty: Daik-Press, 2008).
(technical editor): Essays on Uzbek History, Culture, and Language, ed. Denis Sinor and Bakhtiyar A. Nazarov (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1993; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 156).
Articles
“Sufi Hagiographies in Persian,” for Persian Religious and Mystical Literature, ed. Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet T. Karamustafa, vol. XX in A History of Persian Literature, ed. Ehsan Yarshater (New York: Persian Heritage Foundation, forthcoming), 54 typescript pages.
“A Persian Sufi Work from the Golden Horde: The Qalandar-nāma of Abū Bakr Rūmī,” for Mongols, Tatars and Turks in the Persianate World: Festschrift in Honor of István Vásáry, ed. Ferenc Csirkés and Benedek Péri (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), 35 typescript pages.
“Turkic Sources from the Western Mongol Successor States,” for The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, ed. Michal Biran and Kim Ho-dong (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), 20 typescript pages.
“Encountering Saints in the Hallowed Ground of a Regional Landscape: The ‘Description of Khwārazm’ and the Experience of Pilgrimage in 19th-Century Central Asia,” in Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes, ed. Daphna Ephrat, Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo G. Pinto (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), 35 typescript pages.
“Sufis as the Ulama in Seventeenth-century Central Asia: ʿĀlim Shaykh of ʿAlīyābād and Mawlānā Muḥammad Sharīf of Bukhārā,” in Sufis and their Opponents in the Persianate World, ed. Reza Tabandeh and Leonard Lewisohn (Irvine, California: Jordan Center for Persian Studies, forthcoming), 44 typescript pages/pp. 89–139.
“Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in Muslim Inner Asia,” in The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, ed. Nile Green (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019), pp. 131–155.
“A Khwārazmian Saint in the Golden Horde: Közlük Ata (Gözlī Ata) and the Social Vectors of Islamization,” Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 143 (2018/1 = La Horde d’ Or et l’ islamisation des steppes eurasiatiques, ed. Marie Favereau), pp. 107–132.
“Re-Envisioning the History of Sufi Communities in Central Asia: Continuity and Adaptation in Sources and Social Frameworks, 16th–20th Centuries,” in Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th–21st Centuries, ed. Devin DeWeese and Jo-Ann Gross (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 21–74.
“Organizational Patterns and Developments within Sufi Communities,” in The Wiley-Blackwell History of Islam, ed. Armando Salvatore, Roberto Tottoli, Babak Rahimi, M. Fariduddin Attar, and Naznin Patel (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2018), pp. 329–350.
“The Disciples of Aḥmad Yasavī among the Turks of Central Asia: Early Views, Conflicting Evidence, and the Emergence of the Yasavī Silsila,” in Role of Religions in the Turkic Culture: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Role of Religions in the Turkic Culture held on September 9–11, 2015 in Budapest, ed. Éva Csáki, Mária Ivanics, and Zsuzsanna Olach (Budapest: Péter Pázmány Catholic University/MTA-SZTE Turkological Research Group, 2017), pp. 11–25.
“Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufis in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia,” in Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History, ed. A.C.S. Peacock (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), pp. 336–352.
“Mapping Khwārazmian Connections in the History of Sufi Traditions: Local Embeddedness, Regional Networks, and Global Ties of the Sufi Communities of Khwārazm,” Eurasian Studies, 14 (2016), pp. 37–97.
“An ‘Uvaysī’ Hagiography from Eastern Turkistān: The Tadhkira of Quṭb al-Dīn ʿIrāqī,” Etudes orientales: Revue culturelle semestrielle (Paris), Nos. 27–28 (2016), pp. 15–86.
“The Tale of Jānbāz Khoja: Pilgrimage and Holy War in a 19th-Century Tadhkira from Xinjiang,” in Mazar: Studies on Islamic Sacred Sites in Central Eurasia, ed. Sugawara Jun and Rahile Dawut (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2016), pp. 227–252.
“It was a Dark and Stagnant Night (’til the Jadids Brought the Light): Clichés, Biases, and False Dichotomies in the Intellectual History of Central Asia,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 59/1–2 (2016), pp. 37–92.
“Muslims and Infidel Nomads in Timurid Central Asia: Four Stories from the Religious Frontiers of Mawarannahr in the 14th and 15th Centuries,” in Central Eurasia in the Middle Ages: Studies in Honour of Peter B. Golden, ed. István Zimonyi and Osman Karatay (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016; Turcologica, Band 104), pp. 91–102.
“Chaghatay Literature in the Early Sixteenth Century: Notes on Turkic Translations from the Uzbek Courts of Mawarannahr,” in Turkish Language, Literature, and History: Travelers’ Tales, Sultans, and Scholars since the Eighth Century (A Volume of Studies in Honor of Robert Dankoff), ed. Bill Hickman and Gary Leiser (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 99–117.
“Khāns and Amīrs in the Qalandar-nāma of Abū Bakr Rūmī: Praise of the Islamizing Jochid Elite in a Persian Sufi Work from Fourteenth-Century Crimea,” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 21 (2014–2015 = Festschrift for Thomas T. Allsen in Celebration of His 75th Birthday, ed. P.B. Golden, R.K. Kovalev, A.P. Martinez, J. Skaff, and A. Zimonyi [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015]), pp. 53–66.
“Telling Women’s Stories in 16th-Century Central Asia: A Book of Guidance in Chaghatay Turkic for a Royal Lady of the Bukharan Court,” Oriens, 43/1–2 (2015), pp. 154–222.
“A Sixteenth-Century Interpretation of the Islamization of the Mongols Attributed to Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī,” for Mawlana Rumi Review, 5 (2014), pp. 88–105.
“Shamanization in Central Asia,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 57 (2014), pp. 326–363.
“ʿAlāʼ al-Dawla Simnānī’s Religious Encounters at the Mongol Court near Tabriz,” in Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th–15th Century Tabriz, ed. Judith Pfeiffer (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 35–76.
“Intercessory Claims of Ṣūfī Communities during the 14th and 15th Centuries: ‘Messianic’ Legitimizing Strategies on the Spectrum of Normativity,” in Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam, ed. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 197–219.
“Aḥmad Yasavī in the Work of Burhān al-Dīn Qïlïch: The Earliest Reference to a Famously Obscure Central Asian Sufi Saint,” Asiatische Studien/Études asiatiques (Bern), 67/3 (2013), pp. 837–879.
“The Yasavī Presence in the Dasht-i Qïpchaq from the 16th to 18th Century,” in Islam, Society and States across the Qazaq Steppe, 18th–Early 20th Centuries, ed. Niccolò Pianciola and Paolo Sartori (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 844. Band), pp. 27–67.
“Muslim Medical Culture in Modern Central Asia: A Brief Note on Manuscript Sources from the 16th–20th Centuries,” Central Asian Survey, 32/1 (2013), pp. 3–18; reprinted in Health, Drugs and Healing in Central Asia, ed. Alisher Latypov (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 3–18.
“Sacred Descent and Sufi Legitimation in a Genealogical Text from Eighteenth-Century Central Asia: The Sharaf Atāʼī Tradition in Khwārazm,” in Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies: The Living Links to the Prophet, ed. Morimoto Kazuo (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 210–230.
“ ‘Dis-ordering’ Sufism in Early Modern Central Asia: Suggestions for Rethinking the Sources and Social Structures of Sufi History in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” in History and Culture of Central Asia/Istoriia i kul’tura Tsentral’noi Azii, ed. Bakhtiyar Babadjanov and Kawahara Yayoi (Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, 2012), pp. 259–279.
“Survival Strategies: Reflections on the Notion of Religious ‘Survivals’ in Soviet Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Religious Life in Central Asia,” in Exploring the Edge of Empire: Soviet Era Anthropology in the Caucasus and Central Asia, ed. Florian Mühlfried and Sergey Sokolovskiy (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2011; Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, vol. 25), pp. 35–58.
“The ‘Competitors’ of Isḥāq Khwāja in Eastern Turkistan: Hagiographies, Shrines, and Sufi Affiliations in the Late Sixteenth Century,” in Horizons of the World: Festschrift for Isenbike Togan/Hududü’l-Alem: İsenbike Togan’a Armağan, ed. İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel (Istanbul: İthaki Press, 2011), pp. 133–215.
“Ahmad Yasavi and the Divan-i Hikmat in Soviet Scholarship,” in The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies, ed. Michael Kemper and Stephan Conermann (London/New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 262–290.
“Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval Sufi Communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India: The Khalvatī/ʿIshqī/Shaṭṭārī Continuum,” in Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle, ed. Steven Lindquist (New York/London/Delhi: Anthem Press, 2011), pp. 251–300.
“Succession Protocols and the Early Khwajagani Schism in the Maslak al-ʿārifīn,” Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), 22/1 (2011), pp. 1–35.
“Authority,” in Key Themes for the Study of Islam, ed. Jamal J. Elias (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009), pp. 26–52, 382–383.
“The Problem of the Sirāj al-ṣāliḥīn: Notes on Two Hagiographies by Badr al-Dīn Kashmīrī,” in Écrit et culture en Asie centrale et dans le monde turco-iranien, XIVe–XIXe siècles / Writing and Culture in Central Asia and the Turko-Iranian World, 14th–19th Centuries, ed. Francis Richard and Maria Szuppe (Paris: Association pour l’ Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 2009; Studia Iranica, Cahier 40), pp. 43–92.
“Islamization in the Mongol Empire,” in The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age, ed. Nicola Di Cosmo, Allen J. Frank, and Peter B. Golden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 120–134.
“Orality and the Master-Disciple Relationship in Medieval Sufi Communities (Iran and Central Asia, 12th–15th centuries),” in Oralité et lien social au Moyen Âge (Occident, Byzance, Islam): parole donnée, foi jurée, serment, ed. Marie-France Auzépy and Guillaume Saint-Guillain (Paris: Collège de France – CNRS/Centre de Recherche d’ Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Monographies 29, 2008), pp. 293–307.
“Aḥmad Yasavī and the Dog-Men: Narratives of Hero and Saint at the Frontier of Orality and Textuality,” in Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Istanbul, March 28–30, 2001, ed. Judith Pfeiffer and Manfred Kropp (Beirut: Orient-Institut/Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2007; Beiruter Texte und Studien, 111), pp. 147–173.
“Cultural Transmission and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: Notes from the Biographical Dictionary of Ibn al-Fuwaṭī,” in Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan, ed. Linda Komaroff (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 11–29.
“The Legitimation of Bahā’ ad-Dīn Naqshband,” Asiatische Studien/Études asiatiques (Bern), 60/2 (2006), pp. 261–305.
“ ‘Stuck in the Throat of Chingīz Khān:’ Envisioning the Mongol Conquests in Some Sufi Accounts from the 14th to 17th Centuries,” in History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: Studies in Honor of John E. Woods, ed. Judith Pfeiffer and Sholeh A. Quinn in collaboration with Ernest Tucker (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006), pp. 23–60.
“The Yasavī Order and the Uzbeks in the Early 16th Century: The Story of Shaykh Jamāl ad-Dīn and Muḥammad Shïbānī Khān,” for Tsentral’naia Aziia: Istochniki, Istoriia, Kul’tura. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii, posviashchennoi 80-letiiu doktora istoricheskikh nauk E. A. Davidovicha i deistvitel’nogo chlena Akademii nauk Tadzhikistana, akademika RAEN, doktora istoricheskikh nauk B. A. Litvinskogo, Moskva, 3–5 aprelia 2003 g., ed. E.V. Antonova and T.K. Mkrtychev (Moscow: Izdatel’skaia Firma ‘Vostochnaia Literatura’ Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2005), pp. 297–310.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. XII
“The Predecessors of Navā’ī in the Funūn al-balāghah of Shaykh Aḥmad b. Khudāydād Ṭarāzī: A Neglected Source on Central Asian Literary Culture from the Fifteenth Century,” for Journal of Turkish Studies, 29/1 (2005; = Festschrift for Eleazar Birnbaum), pp. 73–164.
“Two Narratives on Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and Raḍī al-Dīn ʿAlī Lālā from a Thirteenth-Century Source: Notes on a Manuscript in the Raza Library, Rampur,” in Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought: Essays in Honour of Hermann Landolt, ed. Todd Lawson (London: I.B. Tauris/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2005), pp. 298–339.
*– reprinted (and corrected) in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. XI (43 pp.)
“Problems of Islamization in the Volga-Ural Region: Traditions about Berke Khan,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Islamic Civilisation in the Volga-Ural Region (Kazan, 8–11 June 2001)/Doklady mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Islamskaia kul’tura v Volgo-Ural’skom regione” (Kazan’, 8–11 iiunia 2001 g.), ed. Ali Çaksu and Radik Mukhammetshin (Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture [IRCICA], 2004), pp. 3–13.
“Islam and the Legacy of Sovietology: A Review Essay on Yaacov Ro’i’s Islam in the Soviet Union,” Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), 13/3 (2002), pp. 298–330.
“The Sayyid Atā’ī Presence in Khwārazm during the 16th and Early 17th Centuries,” in Studies on Central Asian History in Honor of Yuri Bregel, ed. Devin DeWeese (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 167), pp. 245–281.
“Sacred Places and ‘Public’ Narratives: The Shrine of Aḥmad Yasavī in Hagiographical Traditions of the Yasavī Sufi Order, 16th–17th Centuries,” Muslim World, 90/3–4 (Fall 2000), pp. 353–376.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. X
“Dog Saints and Dog Shrines in Kubravī Tradition: Notes on a Hagiographical Motif from Khwārazm,” in Miracle et karāma: Hagiographies médiévales comparées, 2, ed. Denise Aigle (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000; Bibliothèque de l’ école des hautes études, sciences religieuses, vol. 109), pp. 459–497.
“Sacred History for a Central Asian Town: Saints, Shrines, and Legends of Origin in Histories of Sayrām, 18th–19th Centuries,” in Figures mythiques des mondes musulmans (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 89–90), ed. Denise Aigle (Paris, 2000), pp. 245–295. [
“The Yasavī Order and Persian Hagiography in Seventeenth-Century Central Asia: ‘Ālim Shaykh of ‘Alīyābād and his Lamaḥāt min nafaḥāt al-quds,” in The Heritage of Sufism, vol. III: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501–1750), The Safavid and Mughal Period, ed. Leonard Lewisohn and David Morgan (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1999), pp. 389–414.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. IX
“The Politics of Sacred Lineages in 19th-Century Central Asia: Descent Groups linked to Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi in Shrine Documents and Genealogical Charters,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 31/4 (1999), pp. 507–530. [
“Khojagānī Origins and the Critique of Sufism: The Rhetoric of Communal Uniqueness in the Manāqib of Khoja ‘Alī ‘Azīzān Rāmītanī,” in Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics, ed. Frederick De Jong and Bernd Radtke (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999), pp. 492–519.
*– reprinted (and reset) in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. VIII (25 pp.)
– Russian translation: [Devin DiUis], “Istoki Khvadzhagan i kritika sufizma: ritorika po povodu obshchinnoi unikal’nosti v Manakib khvadzhi ‘Ali ‘Azizana Ramitani,” tr. Vl. Lents, in Sufizm v Tsentral’noi Azii (zarubezhnye issledovaniia): Sbornik statei pamiati Frittsa Maiera (1912–1998), ed. A.A. Khismatulin (St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk, Sankt-Peterburgskii filial Instituta vostokovedeniia/Filologicheskii fakul’tet Sankt-Peterburgskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 2001), pp. 244–274.
– Turkish translation: “Hâcegân’a ait Kollar ve Tasavvufun Eleştirisi: Hoca Ali Azîzân Râmîtenî’nin Menâkıbı’nda Cemaatsel Benzersizlik İddiası,” tr. Necdet Tosun, in Tasavvuf: İlmî ve Akademik Araştırma Dergisi, 7 (2006; No. 16), pp. 313–337.
“Yasavī Šayḫs in the Timurid Era: Notes on the Social and Political Role of Communal Sufi Affiliations in the 14th and 15th Centuries,” in La civiltà timuride come fenomeno internazionale, ed. Michele Bernardini [= Oriente Moderno (Rome), N.S., 15 (76), No. 2 (1996)], pp. 173–188.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. VII
“The Mashā’ikh-i Turk and the Khojagān: Rethinking the Links between the Yasavī and Naqshbandī Sufi Traditions,” Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), 7/2 (July 1996), pp. 180–207. [doi:10.1093/jis/7.2.180]
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. VI
– Russian translation: [Devin DiUis], “Masha’ikh-i turk i Khvadzhagan: pereosmyslenie sviazei mezhdu sufiiskimi traditsiiami Iasaviia i Nakshbandiia,” tr. E. Berezina, in Sufizm v Tsentral’noi Azii (zarubezhnye issledovaniia): Sbornik statei pamiati Frittsa Maiera (1912–1998), ed. A.A. Khismatulin (St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk, Sankt-Peterburgskii filial Instituta vostokovedeniia/Filologicheskii fakul’tet Sankt-Peterburgskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 2001), pp. 210–243.
“The Tadhkira-i Bughrā-khān and the ‘Uvaysī’ Sufis of Central Asia: Notes in Review of Imaginary Muslims,” Central Asiatic Journal, 40 (1996), pp. 87–127.
“The Descendants of Sayyid Ata and the Rank of Naqīb in Central Asia,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115 (1995), pp. 612–634. [
“A Note on Manuscripts of the Zubdat al-āthār, a Chaghatay Turkic History from Sixteenth-Century Mawarannahr,” Manuscripts of the Middle East, 6 (1992) [Leiden, 1994], pp. 96–100.
“Bābā Kamāl Jandī and the Kubravī Tradition among the Turks of Central Asia,” Der Islam, 71 (1994), pp. 58–94.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. V
“An ‘Uvaysī’ Sufi in Timurid Mawarannahr: Notes on Hagiography and the Taxonomy of Sanctity in the Religious History of Central Asia,” Papers on Inner Asia, No. 22 (Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1993), 36 pp.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. IV
“A Neglected Source on Central Asian History: The 17th-Century Yasavī Hagiography Manāqib al-akhyār,” in Essays on Uzbek History, Culture, and Language, ed. Denis Sinor and Bakhtiyar A. Nazarov (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1993; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 156), pp. 38–50.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. III
“Sayyid ‘Alī Hamadānī and Kubrawī Hagiographical Traditions,” in The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications/School of Oriental and African Studies, 1992; reprinted as The Heritage of Sufism, vol. II, The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism (1150–1500) [Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1999]), pp. 121–158.
*– reprinted in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. II
– Persian translation: [Divīn Divīs], “Sayyid ‘Alī Hamadānī va sunnat-hā-yi awliyā-nāmah-navīsī,” in Mīrāth-i tasavvuf, tr. Majd al-Dīn Kayvānī (Tehran: Nashr-i Markaz, 1384/2005), vol. 1, pp. 496–537.
“Khusain Khorezmi: Sredneaziatskii sufii nachala XV v.” [“Husayn Khorezmī: A Central Asian Sufi of the Early Fifteenth Century”], in Iz istorii sufizma: istochniki i sotsial’naia praktika [“On the History of Sufism: Sources and Social Practice”], ed. M.M. Khairullaev (Tashkent: Izdatel’stvo “Fan” Akademii nauk Respubliki Uzbekistan, 1991), pp. 48–69 (translated into Russian by E. Poliakova and S. Martynov from an unpublished paper left at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Tashkent in 1986).
“Yasavian Legends on the Islamization of Turkistan,” Studies in Altaic Civilization III (= Proceedings of the 30th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistics Conference (PIAC), Bloomington, 1987), ed. Denis Sinor (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1990; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 145), pp. 1–19.
“The Eclipse of the Kubravīyah in Central Asia,” Iranian Studies, 21/1–2 (1988), pp. 45–83.
*– reprinted (and corrected) in Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012), No. I (39 pp.)
– Persian translation: [Divīn Divīs], “Ufūl-i Kubravīya dar Āsiyā-yi markazī,” tr. Muzhghan Pūrfard, Tārīkh-i Islām (Qum: Muʼassasa-yi Amūzish-i ʿĀlī-yi Bāqir al-ʿUlūm), 8 (Winter 1386/2008), No. 32, pp. 147–183.
“Znachenie rukopisei iz fonda Instituta vostokovedeniia AN UzSSR dlia izucheniia sufizma” (“The Significance of the Manuscripts from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR for the Study of Sufism”), Obshchestvennye nauki v Uzbekistane [“Social Sciences in Uzbekistan”], 1984, No. 11, pp. 43–47.
“Religious Affiliations in their Ethnic Context among the Finno-Ugric Peoples of the Volga-Ural Region,” Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 52 (1980), pp. 109–126.
“The Influence of the Mongols on the Religious Consciousness of Thirteenth-Century Europe,” Mongolian Studies, 5 (1978–1979), pp. 41–78.
Encyclopedia Articles and Miscellaneous Contributions
“Khalīl Ata,” for Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), 11 typescript pages.
“Bukhārī, Muḥammad Sharīf,” (11th/17th century), for Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), 12 typescript pages.
“Najm al-Dīn Kubrā,” for Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilisation, ed. Mustafa Shah (London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming), 3 proof pages.
“Three Stories of Conversion from the Life of Sayyid Aḥmad Bashīrī, a Sufi of Timurid Central Asia,” for Conversion to Islam in Pre-Modern World History: A Sourcebook, ed. Nimrod Hurvitz, Christian Sahner, Uriel Simonsohn, and Luke Yarbrough (Oakland, California: University of California Press, forthcoming), 10 typescript pages.
“Introduction” (with Jo-Ann Gross) for Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th–21st Centuries, ed. Devin DeWeese and Jo-Ann Gross (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 1–20.
“Sayyid Baraka,” Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2017/1 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 138–143.
“Baba Tükles,” for Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Encyclopaedia of Islam of the Turkish Religious Foundation), Ek (Supplement) 1 (Istanbul, 2016), pp. 162–163.
“Badakhshī, Nūr al-Dīn Jaʿfar,” for Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2016/3 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 39–41.
“Moving Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Cultural Change in Muslim Eurasia (19th–20th Centuries),” co-authored introduction (with Jeff Eden and Paolo Sartori) to a special thematic double-issue of the Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient, 59/1–2 (2016), pp. 1–36.
“Hamadānī, Sayyid ʿAlī,” for Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2015/ 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 147–151.
“À l’ ouest, l’ empire s’ islamise,” L’ Histoire (Paris), No. 392 (October 2013), pp. 66–71 (translated from draft article for a special issue, focused on the Mongol empire, of a French popular history journal).
“Bābā Faraj,” for The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2013/3 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 41–43.
Introduction to Studies on Sufism in Central Asia (2012; Variorum reprint series), pp. ix–xviii.
“Kašmiri, Badr-al-Din,” for Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. XVI, fascicle 1 (New York: Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, 2012), pp. 80–83.
“Islam in Central Asia,” for The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, vol. 3: The Spread of Islam throughout the World, ed. Idris El Hareir and El Hadji Ravane M’Baye (Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 2011), pp. 721–734.
“Āfāq, Khwāja, and the Āfāqiyya,” for The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2011/1 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), pp. 11–14.
“ ‘Anbar Ānā,” for The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, 2010/1 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 93–95.
“Central Asia, Islam in,” Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, ed. Tamara Sonn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010),
“Five Readings on Sufi Orders in Central Asia: Competition, Practice, Politics” (translations, commentary, and introductions), in Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources, ed. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), pp. 190–196.
“Bukhara Khanate,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, ed. John L. Esposito (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), vol. 1, pp. 368–372.
“Yasavī, Aḥmad,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, ed. John L. Esposito (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), vol. 6, pp. 15–16.
“Three Tales from the Central Asian ‘Book of Hakīm Ata’,” in Tales of God’s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation, ed. John Renard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), pp. 121–135.
Foreword to Sobranie fetv po obosnovaniiu zikra dzhakhr i samaʿ (A Collection of Fatwas in Defense of the Vocal Dhikr and Samaʿ), ed. B.M. Babadzhanov and S.A. Mukhammadaminov (Almaty: Daik-Press, 2008), pp. 9–15.
Foreword to Islamizatsiia i sakral’nye rodoslovnye v Tsentral’noi Azii: Nasledie Iskhak Baba v narrativnoi i genealogicheskoi traditsiiakh, Tom 2: Genealogicheskie gramoty i sakral’nye semeistva XIX–XXI vekov: nasab-nama i gruppy khodzhei, sviazannykh s sakral’nym skazaniem ob Iskhak Babe / Islamization and Sacred Lineages in Central Asia: The Legacy of Ishaq Bab in Narrative and Genealogical Traditions, Vol. 2: Genealogical Charters and Sacred Families: Nasab-namas and Khoja Groups linked to the Ishaq Bab Narrative, 19th–21st Centuries, ed. Ashirbek Muminov, Anke von Kügelgen, Devin DeWeese, Michael Kemper (Almaty: Daik-Press, 2008), pp. 6–33.
“Central Asia,” in The Islamic World, ed. Andrew Rippin (London/New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 85–102.
Foreword to Mehmed Fuad Köprülü, Early Mystics in Turkish Literature, translated and edited by Gary Leiser and Robert Dankoff (English translation of Köprülü’s Türk edebiyatında ilk mutasavvıflar [Istanbul, 1918]) (London/New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. viii–xxvii.
– Turkish translation: “ ‘Türk Edebiyatında İlk Mutasavvıflar’ Hakkında Bazı Notlar,” tr. Ayşenur Aydınlı, Tasavvuf İlmî ve Akademik Araştırma Dergisi, 39–40 (2017), pp. 119–144.
“Central Asia, Islam in,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard C. Martin (New York: Macmillan, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 132–138.
“Central Asian Culture and Islam,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard C. Martin (New York: Macmillan, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 138–141.
“Akhmad Iasavi,” Islam na territorii byvshei Rossiiskoi imperii: Èntsiklopedicheskii slovar’ [“Islam in the Former Russian Empire: Encyclopedic Lexicon”], vyp. 4 (Moscow: Izdatel’skaia firma ‘Vostochnaia literatura’ Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk, 2003), pp. 8–12.
“Iasaviia,” Islam na territorii byvshei Rossiiskoi imperii: Èntsiklopedicheskii slovar’ [“Islam in the Former Russian Empire: Encyclopedic Lexicon”], vyp. 4 (Moscow: Izdatel’skaia firma‘ Vostochnaia literatura̕ Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk, 2003), pp. 35–38.
“Ḥakīm Ata,” Encyclopaedia Iranica (New York), XI (fasc. 6, 2003), pp. 573–574
Preface and Introduction for Studies on Central Asian History in Honor of Yuri Bregel, ed. Devin DeWeese (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 167), pp. ix–x, 1–10.
Translation from Russian of draft article by Elena A. Davidovich, “The Monetary Reform of Muḥammad Shïbānī Khān in 913–914/1507–08,” in Studies on Central Asian History in Honor of Yuri Bregel, ed. Devin DeWeese (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 167), pp. 129–185.
Translation from Russian of draft article by G.E. Markov, “The Social Structure of the Nomads of Asia and Africa,” in Studies on Central Asian History in Honor of Yuri Bregel, ed. Devin DeWeese (Bloomington: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001; Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 167), pp. 319–340.
“Walī,” Section 5: “In Central Asia,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition (Leiden: E.J. Brill), XI (2001), pp. 115–118.
“Toḳtamish,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition (Leiden: E.J. Brill), X (1999), pp. 560–563.
“Bukhara Khanate,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. John L. Esposito (New York/London: Oxford University Press, 1995), vol. 1, pp. 233–234.
Approximately 25 annotated bibliographical entries on Inner Asian religion for the American Historical Association’s Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd ed. (New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), vol. I, pp. 265–273.
“Atā’īya Order,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, II (fasc. 8, 1987), pp. 904–905.
Reviews
Review of Alexandre Papas, Mystiques et vagabonds en islam: Portraits de trois soufis qalandar (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010), for Central Eurasian Reader, 3 (forthcoming), 6 typescript pages.
Review of Scott C. Levi, The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709–1876: Central Asia in the Global Age (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), for International Journal of Turkish Studies (forthcoming), 9 typescript pages.
Review of Balázs Danka, The ‘Pagan’ Oɣuz-nāmä: A Philological and Linguistic Analysis (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019; Turcologica, 113), for Orientalistische Literaturzeitung (forthcoming), 5 proof pages [set: 115/3 (2020), pp. 272–276.]
Review of Giovanni Maria Martini, ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate (Leiden: Brill, 2018), for Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (forthcoming), 2 proof pages.
Review of Nuryoghdi Toshov, ed., Īsh Murād b. Ādīna Muḥammad al-ʿAlavī: Jamshīdī ṭavāyifī fatḥi (The Subjugation of the Jamshīdīs) (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018; Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 888. Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik, 82. Studies and Texts on Central Asia, 1). 55, 153 pp., for Die Welt des Islams (forthcoming), 3 typescript pages.
Review of Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion (New Haven, Connecticut, and London: Yale University Press, 2017), in Journal of Islamic Studies, 30/2 (2019), pp. 250–259.
Review of Kwangmin Kim, Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2016), in American Historical Review, 123/5 (December 2018), pp. 1653–1654.
Review of Shamanism and Islam: Sufism, Healing Rituals and Spirits in the Muslim World, ed. Thierry Zarcone and Angela Hobart (London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013), in International Journal of Turkish Studies, 22/1–2 (Fall 2016), pp. 200–206.
Review of Arezou Azad, Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the Faḍaʼil-i Balkh (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 78/3 (2015), pp. 617–619.
Review of S. Frederick Starr, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 45/4 (Spring 2015), pp. 611–613.
– Russian translation: Devin DeViz, “Retsenziia Devina Deviza na knigu Frederika Starra ‘Utrachennoe prosveshchenie’,” in Islamology: Zhurnal issledovanii islama i musul’manskikh obshchestv/Journal for Studies of Islam and Muslim Societies (Kazan), 7/1 (2017), pp. 212–214.
Review of Central Asian Pilgrims: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz, ed. Alexandre Papas, Thomas Welsford, and Thierry Zarcone (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2012; Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 308), in International Journal of Turkish Studies, 19/1–2 (Fall 2013), pp. 258–263.
Review of Bahargül Hamut, ed., Silsilat aẕ-ẕahab: Kommentierung einer čaġatai-uigurischen Handschrift zu den Aqtaġliq Hoǧilar, einer mystischen Gruppierung in Xinjiang im 16.–18. Jahrhundert (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2011; Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Türkvölker, Band 10), in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 108/1 (2013), pp. 65–68.
Review of Kelly Pemberton, Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2010), in Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), 24/1 (2013), pp. 109–113.
Review of Johan Rasanayagam, Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Morality of Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 30/1 (2013), pp. 105–109.
Review of Islamisation de l’ Asie centrale: Processus locaux d’ acculturation du VIIe au XIe siècle, ed. Étienne de la Vaissière (Paris: Association pour l’ Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 2008; Studia Iranica, Cahier 39), in Jerusalem Studies on Arabic and Islam, 38 (2011), pp. 397–414.
Review of David Sneath, The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, & Misrepresentations of Nomadic Inner Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), in International Journal of Turkish Studies, 16/1–2 (Fall 2010), pp. 142–151.
Review of Maria Elisabeth Louw, Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia (London/New York: Routledge, 2007), in Journal of Islamic Studies, 21/1 (2010), pp. 157–162.
Review of Omid Safi, The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006), in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76/1 (2008), pp. 177–183.
Review of Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2007), in Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), 19/1 (2008), pp. 133–141.
Review of Michael Kemper and Amri R. Šixsaidov, Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol. 4: Die Islamgelehrten Daghestans und ihre arabischen Werke: Naḏīr ad-Durgilīs (st. 1935) Nuzhat al-adhān fī tarāǧim ‘ulamā’ Dāġistān (Berlin: Schwarz, 2004; Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 259), in Die Welt des Islams, 46/2 (2006), pp. 231–232.
Review of Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia, vol. 3: Arabic, Persian and Turkic Manuscripts (15th–19th Centuries), ed. Anke von Kügelgen, Aširbek Muminov, and Michael Kemper (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2000; Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 233), in Central Eurasian Studies Review, 3/2 (Spring 2004), pp. 22–24.
Review of Florian Schwarz, ‘Unser Weg schließt tausend Wege ein:’ Derwische und Gesellschaft im islamischen Mittelasien im 16. Jahrhundert (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2000; Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Band 226), in Der Islam, 80 (2003), pp. 169–176.
Review of Jürgen Paul, Herrscher, Gemeinwesen, Vermittler: Ostiran und Transoxanien in vormongolischer Zeit (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996; Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 59), in Iranian Studies, 32/1 (Winter 1999), pp. 109–113.
Review of Classical Persian Sufism: From its Origins to Rumi, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London/New York: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1993), in Iranian Studies, 32/1 (Winter 1999), pp. 132–135.
Review of Audrey Burton, The Bukharans: A Dynastic, Diplomatic and Commercial History, 1550–1702 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), in The International History Review (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia), 21/2 (1999), pp. 468–471.
Review of Les Voies d’ Allah: Les ordres mystiques dans l’ islam des origines à aujourd’ hui, ed. Alexandre Popovic and Gilles Veinstein (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1996), in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 42/2 (1999), pp. 280–284.
Review of R.D. McChesney, Central Asia: Foundations of Change (Princeton, New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1996), in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 32/1 (1998), pp. 59–60.
Review of Maria Szuppe, Entre timourides, uzbeks et safavides: Questions d’ histoire politique et sociale de Hérat dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle (Paris: Association pour l’ Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 1992; Studia Iranica, Cahier 12), in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115 (1995), pp. 141–143.
Review of Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, ed. Jo-Ann Gross (Duke University Press, 1992), in Slavic Review, 53/1 (Spring 1994), pp. 275–276.
Review of Jürgen Paul, Die politische und soziale Bedeutung der Naqšbandiyya in Mittelasien im 15. Jahrhundert (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991; Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, Bd. 13), in Journal of Asian History, 27/1 (1993), pp. 66–68.
Review of R.D. McChesney, Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480–1889 (Princeton, 1991), in Journal of Asian History, 26/2 (1992), pp. 171–172.
Review of Edward Allworth, The Modern Uzbeks (Stanford: Hoover Institute, 1990), in AACAR Bulletin (Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research), 5/1 (Spring 1992), pp. 26–29.
Review of “Naqshbandi Treaty [sic]; Arabic Text – Russian Translation” (Oxford: Society for Central Asian Studies, Reprint Series, No. 10, 1986), in Nationalities Papers, 16/2 (Fall, 1988), pp. 294–298.