Sacred History for a Central Asian TownSaints, Shrines, and Legends of Origin inHistories of Sayrām, 18th-19th Centuries
This article examines historical myths focused on Sayrām, a small town in the south of present-day Kazakstan, as a case study of indigenous conceptions of communal identity in pre-Soviet Central Asia. These traditions are preserved in a set of Turkic works, generically entitled « The History of Sayr...
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| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2000-07-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/283 |