Yuri Bregel's Atlas provides us with a bird's eye view of the complicated history of this important part of the Islamic world, which is closely connected with the history of Iran, Afghanistan, China,
The first translation into English from Chaghatay, a medieval Turkic literary language of Central Asia, of a work by Uzbek historians Munis (1778-1829) and Agahi (1809-74), and indeed the first wester