Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia

This series comes from the proceedings of annual multi-disciplinary conferences hosted by Central and Inner Asia Studies (CIAS) of the University of Toronto.  Since 1990, The CIAS is dedicated to studying the political, economic, historical and cultural aspects of the region which occupies the vast territory from the China Sea to Eastern Europe. For more information about this conference, and to purchase its publications, please go to the CIAS website.  

We thank Professor Michael Gervers and CIAS for their permission to republish the following two articles:

"Spurred on by the Fear of Death": Refugees and Displaced Populations during the Mongol Invasion of Hungary, by James Ross Sweeney -  from Nomadic Diplomacy, Destruction and Religion from the Pacific to the Adriatic (1994) (PDF file)

The Nomads' Armament: Home Made Weapons, by John Masson Smith Jr. - from Religion, Customary Law, and Nomadic Technology (1998) (PDF file)

List of Publications

History and Society in Central and Inner Asia: Papers presented at the Central and Inner Asian Seminar
Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 7 (2005)

• The Role of Islam and Expansion of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Domestic Environment of Central Asia
  HABIBOLLAH ABOLHASSAN SHIRAZI

• Female Anxiety and Female Power: the Political Involvement of Mongol Empresses during the 13th and 14th Centuries
  GEORGE QINGZHI ZHAO AND RICHARD W. L. GUISSO

• From Nomad’s Tent to Garden Palace: Evolution of a Chinggisid Household in the Crimea
  MARYNA KRAVETS

• Linking the Doctrinal and the Textual with the Visual Representation of the Parinirvana Scenes in the Kizil Grottoes
  RAJESHWARI GHOSE

• ‘A Nation of Nomads’? The Lifeway of the Yuezhi in the Gansu and Bactria
  CRAIG BENJAMIN

• The Buddhists of Bamiyan: Tibetan Vajrayana Roots in Afghanistan
  NICHOLAS CORBETT

• From the Domestic to the Divine: Kyrgyz Shyrdak Felts
  STEPHANIE BUNN

• Homeland as a Domestic Sphere in Kazakhstan: Historical Homeland (Istorichskie Rodina), Homeland (Rodina) and Soviet Homeland (Sovietskoe Rodina)
  JAKOB RIGI

• The Rise of Modem Uighur Nationalism
  JENNIFER TAYNEN

• Tajikistan’s Civil Society Environment: Endogenous Preferences & Exogenous Perceptions
  NAJAM ABBAS

• Ethno-nationalism in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Uzbekistan
  MAITE OJEDA MATA

• Authoritarian Regimes in Central Asia and their Impact within the Domestic Environment
  JAFAR GHAMAT

• Abstract of Research: The Impact of Globalization on the National Values of Central Asian States
  ASET ABDUALlYEV

• The Welfare State and Gender: New Directions in Reshaping a Welfare Policy of Post-Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan
  AYSEGUL KOZAK AND GULSEREN ISIK

• Language, Literacy and Education in Tajikistan
  STEPHEN A. BAHRY

• Challenges of Education and History Teaching in Kyrgyzstan
  DUISHON SHAMATOV

• Coverage of Environmental and Environmental Health News of Central Asia by Independent News Web Sites
  ERIC FREEDMAN

• Activities of the International Charitable Foundation Meerim in Kyrgyzstan
  NURMIRA JAMANGULOVA

• Ecological Problems of Central Asia Resulting from Space Rocket Debris
  M. NAURYZBAEV, S. BATYRBEKOVA, B. KENESOV, KH. TASSIBEKOV, A. VOROZHEIKIN, YU. PROSKURYAKOV

• A Looming Water Crisis in Chinese Central Asia: Are the Kariz Dying Out in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)?
  GULBAHAR MATTOHTI

Cultural Interaction and Conflict in Central and Inner Asia: Papers presented at the Central and Inner Asian Seminar
Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 6 (2004)

• Control through Conciliation: Royal Marriages Between the Mongol Yuan and Koryŏ (Korea) During the 13th and 14th Centuries
  GEORGE ZHAO

• Constructing the "Green Isle": Changing Notions of Territory and Homeland Among Crimean Tatars
  BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS

• Kipling’s Afghanistan
  NEIL MORAN

• The Relationship Between Land and People in Kyrgyzstan
  STEPHANIE BUNN

• A Young History Teacher in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
  DUISHON SHAMATOV

• The Physical and Human Geography of Inner Asia in the Early 1920s Through the Eyes and Lens of C. P. Skrine
  DANIEL C. WAUGH

• The Space Between Two Journeys: Kazakh Social Organization and Rural to Urban Migration
  SAULESH YESSENOVA

• Hybridity and Conquest: Patterns of Liao (AD 907-1125) Khitan Tomb Burial
  HIROMI KINOSHITA

• The Oases Settlements of Central Asia
  MANU P. SOBTI

• Red Lintels, Green Rooftops: The Role of Architecture in Eight Paintings from Temple 9 at Bezeklik
  NANCY SHATZMAN STEINHARDT

• The African Emergence and Early Human Expansion into Near East and Central Asia: “Out-of-Africa Hypothesis” from Near Eastern and Central Asian Point of View
  KAMAL ALDIN NIKNAMI

• Natural and Human Geography of Miyankuh
  EMRAN GARAZHIAN AND LEILA PAPOLI YAZDI

• Miyankuh People: Adaptation of Village Plans to Their Environment
  EMRAN GARAZHIAN

• An Ethno-Archaeological Perspective on the Lack of Agricultural Land and Multi-Professions in Miyankuh
  LEILA PAPOLI YAZDI

• Analytical Study of Architectural Monuments and Data in Southern Turkmenia and Western Iran
  SIMA YADOLLAHI

• Explaining the Emergence of the Hizb ut-Tahrir in Kyrgyzstan: Structure, Chance, Choice
  ALISHER KHAMIDOV

• The Conquest of a Common Cultural Legacy: Turkey and Turkic Asia
  PIERRE CYRIL PAHLAVI

• Land Reform and Privatization in Central Asia: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
  HABIBOLLAH ABOLHASSAN SHIRAZI

• Myth of Pan-Turkism: Turkish Central Asian Policy in the Early 1990s
  SAPARBEK TUYAKBAYEV

• Competition in the Countries of Central Asia in the Name of Cultural Influence
  EMMA BEGIJANYAN

• Caliphate in Central Asia: Islamist Ambition or Political Fantasy?
  ANDREW MCGREGOR

• A Market Approach for Water Use in Central Asia: Instituting the Bank of the Aral Sea and Utilizing Grass-Root Water User Associations
  KUATBAY BEKTEMIROV AND LUKE POTOSKI

• Water Consumption as a Management Factor for the Sustainable Development of Uzbekistan
  ROKHAT M. USMANOVA

• The Kazakh Mining Industry: Economic and Social Impacts
  PETER BOJKOV

• The Secret History of the Mongols, A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century
  PAUL KAHN

Continuity and Change in Central and Inner Asia
Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 5 (2002)

• Les Européens de l’Asie centrale: une culture entre deux mondes
  BORIS CHUKHOVICH

• The Sources of Kazakhstani Conduct
  ROBERT M. CUTLER

• The Western Lands XIYU in the Political Thinking of the Qing Empire
  DINA DOUBROVSKAIA

• The Ethnic Origin of the Huns and their Appearance in Eastern Europe
  JUSUF DZAFAROV

• Turkic Nomads: The Élite of Ninth-Century Muslim Armies
  GHADA JAYYUSI LEHN

• Repatriation to Kazakhstan: History and Current Situation
  GULNARA MENDIKULOVA

• Russia’s Great Game in Tibet?
  DAVID SCHIMMELPENNINCK

• The Problems of Reconciling the values of Civil Society with the Requirements of a Market Economy in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
  RAHAT ACHYLOVA

• Economic Prospects for Central Asia: Competing in the Global Marketplace
  GULNARA MOLDASHEVA

• The Cult of Heaven (Tengris) in the Buryat-Mongolian Epic
  B. S. DUGAROV

• Iranian Social and Economic Development
  EDITA NESZMELYI

• The Main Characteristics of Mongolian and Korean Economic Development, Focussing on Agriculture
  GYORGY NESZMELYI

• Reinventing the Dzud: an Evolving Disaster and an Evolving Term
  OTTO FARKAS

• The Cult of Heaven (Tengris) in the Buryat-Mongolian Epic
  ROSALIND BRADFORD

• Coin and Sculpture Arts of the Kushan Era, First to fourth centuries AD
  DAVID JONGEWARD

• Observations on the honorific system of Korean
  HYE-YOUNG IM

• The Nomadic Cultural Perspective in the Kazak Language
  TALANT MAWKANULI

• Wife, Mother, Shamaness, Warrior Woman: The Role of Women in Mongolian and Siberian Epic Tales
  SARANGEREL

• The Skylark Myth in Buryat Epic and the Siberian Tradition of the Bird-Shaman
  BAYAR DUGAROV

• Urban Metamorphosis and Change in the Central Asian Region after the Arab Invasions: An Analysis of Archaeological Findings, Literature and Scholarly Writings
  MANU P. SOBTI

• Examples of Iconographical Usage: the Bronze Basin from the Hodja Ahmad Ysawi Shrine in Turkestan and the Nisan Tasi in the Mawlana’s Lodge in Konya
  BURCU TEKIN & HAKAN TEKIN

• Population Decadence and Dynastic Decline in the Mongol Empire
  GEORGE ZHAO
   

Religion, Customary Law, and Nomadic Technology
Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 4 (2000)

• The Creation of Cloth-Weaving Traditions amongst the
  Nomadic Pastoralists of Rupshu (Eastern Ladakh)
  MONISHA AHMED

• Uighurs and Technologies of Literacy
  MICHAEL C. BROSE

• Material Culture of the Nomadic Uighurs of the
  Eighth-Ninth Centuries in Central Asia
  ABLET KAMALOV

• The Uses of Blood in Traditional Inner Asian Societies
  RUTH I. MESERVE

• The Nomads’ Armament: Home Made Weaponry
  JOHN MASSON SMITH JR

• Zamzam Water on A White Felt Carpet: Adapting Mongol Ways
  In Muslim Central Asia, 1550-1650
  R. D. McCHESNEY

• Christianity and the Nomads of the Black Sea and Caspian Steppes
  JOSEPH DZAFAROV

• The Buryat Geser Epic and Its Relationship with Buryat Shamanism
  SARANGEREL

• The Cult of Heaven (Tengris) in the Buryat-Mongolian Epic
  B. S. DUGAROV

• Buddhism and Revolution in Mongolia
  IRINA MOROZOVA

• Aspects of Medieval Mongolian Law: An Exercise in Legal Archaeology,
  Or, A View through the Lens of Legal History
  ROBERT W. REID

Historical Themes and Current Change in Central and Inner Asia
Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 3 (1998)

• Central Asia’s Continuing Role in the World Economy to 1800
  ANDRE GUNDER FRANK

• Power and Ethnicity in the Northern Liao Secession, 1122-1123
  PAUL C. FORAGE

• The Cult of the Kökönuur Lake: Ritual and Political Control of Nomads in 18th-20th Century China
  URADYN E. BULAG

• At the Western Fringe of the Steppe
  RUDI PAUL LINDNER

• Tiger Stripe Patterned Chinese Textiles
  JOHN E. VOLLMER AND JACQUELINE SIMCOX

• A Sogdian Thaurnaturgical Text from Dunhuang and the Origins of Inner Asian Weather Magic
  DAVID A. UTZ

• Areal Religious Phenomena in Tibet and Central Eurasia
  MICHAEL WALTER

• Transitional Political Institutions in Modern Kazakstan
  ZHANYLZHAN DZHUNUSOVA

• Kazakhstan and Efforts at Economic Integration with Other CIS States: The Customs Union and the Single Economic Space
  NATSUKO OKA

• Tadjikistan, Une Guerre Inévitable?
  NASRIN DADMEHR

• Environmental Scarcity: Considering the Aral Sea Basin
  IAN SMALL

Cultural Contact, History and Ethnicity in Inner Asia
Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.2 (1996)

• Art and Identity: The Chinese and their ‘Significant others’ in the Third and Second Millennium BC
  KATHERYN M. LINDUFF

• On Medieval and Early Modern Science and Technology in Central Eurasia
  RUTH I. MESERVE

• Western Embassies to the Mongols and the Prospects for Their Conversion, 1245-1253
  PAUL L. SIDELKO

• Tree Worship in Early Mongolia
  CHAOLU WU (Chuluu Ujiyediin)

• Instruction and Entertainment in the Naiman Battle Text: An Analysis of 189 through 196 ofThe Secret History of the Mongols
  PAUL KAHN

• Diary of Ivan Iakovlevich Korostovets, Russian Plenipotentiary in the Russo-Mogolian Negotiations in Urga in 1912-13
  OLGA BAKICH

• Contested History: Issues in the Historiography of Inner Asia’s Uighurs
  LINDA BENSON

• Modern Uyghur, A Historical Perspective
  JEAN-R. DUVAL

• The Xinjiang Mummies and Foreign Angels: Art, Archaeology and Uyghur Muslim Nationalism in Chinese Central Asia
  JUSTIN JON RUDELSON

Nomadic Diplomacy, Destruction and Religion from the Pacific to the Adriatic
Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia No.1 (1994)

• The Spread of World Religions in Medieval Nomadic Societies of the Eurasian Steppes
  ANATOLY M. KHAZANOV

• "Spurred on by the Fear of Death": Refugees and Displaced Populations during the Mongol Invasion of Hungary
  JAMES ROSS SWEENEY

• Two Cultural Brokers of Medieval Eurasia: Bolad Aqa and Marco Polo
  THOMAS T. ALLSEN

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