Title In remembrance of the saints the rise and fall of an Inner Asian Sufi dynasty Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari ; translated by David Brophy

Published New York Columbia University Press [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Translations from the Asian classics Translations from the Asian classics. Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- In Remembrance of the Saints -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS Summary "In the first half of the eighteenth century, members of the Naqshbandi Sufi dynasty vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an opportunity to assert their independence in the oasis cities of Kashgar and Yarkand. Others sided with the armies of the Qing dynasty, which were massing on the frontiers to invade. The ensuing conflict saw the region incorporated into the expanding Qing imperium. Three decades afterward, Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari was commissioned to write an account of these Naqshbandi Sufis and their downfall. Blending the genres of collective biography and historical epic, mixing prose and verse, Kashghari's text vividly depicts religious and political conflicts on the eve of the Qing conquest. It became the most popular and influential Chaghatay-language work to grapple with this divisive period. This volume presents the complete, long recension of In Remembrance of the Saints, translated for the first time into any language and extensively annotated with reference to both Islamic and Qing sources. The introduction situates the work in the Inner Asian tradition of Sufi biography and discusses the political factors shaping historical memory in Qianlong-era Xinjiang. Providing a rare local perspective on China's expansion into Muslim borderlands, this translation sheds light on Xinjiang's political and religious traditions and makes a foundational work of Inner Asian literature available to students and scholars"-- Provided by publisher Notes Translated from the original Uyghur Turkic language into English Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 1, 2021) Subject Sufis -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- Biography Sufism -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu -- History Naqshabandīyah -- Asia, Central -- History LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Asian -- General. Naqshabandīyah Sufis Sufism SUBJECT Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- History Subject Central Asia China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Brophy, David John, translator. LC no. 2020028801 ISBN 9780231552523 0231552521

Other Titles Taẕkira-yi ʻazīzān. English

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