Curtis, Glenn E. "Religion." In Turkmenistan: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996, http://countrystudies.us/turkmenistan/14.htm.
Curtis discusses Sufi shaykhs and their role in syncretic Islamic practices, the authority of övlat lineages descended from the four Caliphs who succeeded Muhammad, Soviet atheism, and independent control of Islam. See also his Bibliography which contains over 90 entries, mostly published in the 1990s and many of them U.S. or World Bank government agency reports. Some of them relate to Islam in Central Asia.
Sections: History and Structure; Religion After Independence.
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Feldman, Walter. "Interpreting the Poetry of Mahktumquli." In Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, edited by Jo-Ann Gross, 167-189. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.
In addition to being "the most significant figure in the creation of Turkmenian written literature," Mahktumquli is also a Muslim figure from Turkmenistan. The following introduction, also from page 167, describes the chapter: "This brief chapter will attempt to demonstrate how the aesthetic choices of Mahktumquli made literary form into a strong symbol of the historical and the incipient national consciousness of the Turkmen people."
Sections: The Biography of Mahktumquli; Poetry of Mahktumquli
In addition to being "the most significant figure in the creation of Turkmenian written literature," Mahktumquli is also a Muslim figure from Turkmenistan. The following introduction, also from page 167, describes the chapter: "This brief chapter will attempt to demonstrate how the aesthetic choices of Mahktumquli made literary form into a strong symbol of the historical and the incipient national consciousness of the Turkmen people."
Sections: The Biography of Mahktumquli; Poetry of Mahktumquli
Sarykhanov, Nurmurat. "The Book." In Against the Desert: Stories by Writers of Soviet Turkmenia. Translated by Fainna Glagoleva, 7-27. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1960.
Sarykhanov's short story is about a man in Turkmenistan during Tsarist and Soviet times who after hearing a mullah recite from a book purchased it for the price of his only camel. He is chastised by his wife and neighbors for making such a "poor" trade, but after his son learns to read, all agree that he made a good trade. The book he purchased was a work of "Makhtum Kuli, who laid the foundation of all Turkmenian classical literature" (p. 27). Makhtum Kuli was also a Sufi. This story shows not just the lack of Islamic literature among the nomadic people of Central Asia, but also a deep appreciation for such literature when it is available. Descriptors: 1960s, chapter, G, literature, S, short story, Soviet, translation, Turkmenistan
Sarykhanov's short story is about a man in Turkmenistan during Tsarist and Soviet times who after hearing a mullah recite from a book purchased it for the price of his only camel. He is chastised by his wife and neighbors for making such a "poor" trade, but after his son learns to read, all agree that he made a good trade. The book he purchased was a work of "Makhtum Kuli, who laid the foundation of all Turkmenian classical literature" (p. 27). Makhtum Kuli was also a Sufi. This story shows not just the lack of Islamic literature among the nomadic people of Central Asia, but also a deep appreciation for such literature when it is available. Descriptors: 1960s, chapter, G, literature, S, short story, Soviet, translation, Turkmenistan
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