Central Asian Ismailis

Dr Dagikhudo Dagiev is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK, where his research areas include contemporary societies in post-Communist Central Asia, their history, religion and nationalism. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Political Science at University College London (UCL), having studies at Khorog State University in Tajikistan. He is the recipient of scholarships from the Institute of Ismaili Studies and the University of Oxford (2004). He has authored Transition in Central Asia: Nationalism and Political Change in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (2014) and he co-edited, with Professor Carole Faucher, the volume Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia: Mountain Communities of Pamir (2018).

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Notes on Transliteration and Names

CHAPTER I: The History of Ismailism in Central Asia
Early Ismaili History in Central Asia
Activities of the Ismaili Da'wa in Central Asia
The History of Ismailism in Badakhshan
Nasir-i Khusraw and the Ismailis of Badakhshan
Badakhshani Ismailis during Alamut period
Taqiyya and the Ismailis in the Post-Alamut era
The Hudud al-Din in the Context of Central Asia
The Concepts of Pir and Pirship in Central Asia
The Political History of Badakhshan
The Russian Revolution and the Panjebhai Movement
The Ismaili Community in the Soviet Era
The Ismaili Community in Post-Soviet Era

CHAPTER II: The Study of Ismailism by Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Scholars
The Ismailis under Russian and Soviet Rule
Ismailism in Soviet Studies
Soviet Scholars on Ismailism
Manuscripts Discovered in Badakhshan
Ismailism in Post-Soviet Studies
Outline of the Activities and Projects Conducted by Manuscript Office
Post-Soviet Scholars on Ismailism
References

CHAPTER III: Bibliography of Works by Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Scholars