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                              ESSAYS 
                              ON 
                              CENTRAL ASIA

                              H. B. Paksoy

Copyright H. B. Paksoy 1999
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                              CONTENTS
                                

     Introduction

     "Nationality or Religion? Views of Central Asian Islam" 
     [AACAR Bulletin (of the Association for the Advancement of
          Central Asian Research) Vol VIII, No. 2, 1995]
     [Reprinted in International Journal of Central Asian Studies
          Volume 3, 1998]
     [Translation in   CENTRAL ASIA AND THE GULF.  Masayuki
          Yamauchi, Ed.  (Tokyo: Asahi Selected Series, 1995)]

     "The Question of 'Religious Fundamentalism' in Central Asia"
     [Presented to the Central Asian Studies Program Conference
          on The Revival of Central Asian Culture. (The Oklahoma
          State University, March 1997)

     "Political Legitimacy Trends in Central Asia"

     "Dastan Genre in Central Asia"  
     [Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and the Soviet
          Union (Academic International Press, 1995) Vol. VI]

     "Central Asia's New Dastans" 
     [Central Asian Survey Vol. 6, No. 1, 1987]

     "Chora Batir: A Tatar Admonition to Future Generations"
     [Studies in Comparative Communism Vol. XIX, Nos. 3 & 4,
          Autumn/Winter 1986]

     "Two Mythical PANs: Uses of Apocrypha Ascribed to the Turks"
         Eurasian Studies (Ankara) Summer 1994. 
     [Translation in Avrasya Etdleri (Ankara) Yaz, 2, 1994]

     "Two Altaic Games: Chelik-Chomak and Jirid Oyunu" 
     [Aspects of Altaic Civilization III.  Denis Sinor, Editor. 
          (Bloomington/The Hague: Indiana University Research
          Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1990)  Indiana
          University Uralic and Altaic Series, Volume 145]

     "The Traditional Oglak Tartish Among the Kirghiz of the
          Pamirs" 
     [Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and
          Ireland 1985, Part 2]  

     "Observations Among Kirghiz Refugees from the Pamirs of
          Afghanistan Settled in the Turkish Republic" 
     [Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Vol. XVI,
          No. 1, Hilary, 1985]  

     "The 'Basmachi:' Turkistan National Liberation Movement
          1916-1930s"  
     [Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and Soviet Union
          (Academic International Press, 1991) Vol. IV]

     "Crimean Tatars" 
     [Modern Encyclopedia of Religions in Russia and Soviet Union
     (Academic International Press, 1995) Vol. VI]

     "Perspectives on the Unrest in the Altai Region of the USSR"
     [Published in Eurasian Studies (Ankara)  Vol. 2, No. 2,
          Summer, 1995]
     [First distributed electronically by Radio Liberty,     
          from Munich, Germany, via the SOVSET computer network  
            (Report on the USSR), on 10 September 1990]

     "An Encounter Between Z.V. Togan and S. Freud"
     [International Bulletin of Political Psychology Vol.4 No.
          24; Jun 19, 1998]
     [Reprinted in STAD: Sanal Turkoloji Araŝtŝrmalarŝ Dergisi 19
          May 1998]

     "Abubekir Ahmedjan Divay (1855-1933)"  

     "Alishir Ibadinov (1953- )"

     "Muhammad Ali (1942- )"
         
     "Elements of Humor in Central Asia:  The Example of the
          journal Molla Nasreddin in Azerbaijan" 
     [Turkestan als historischer Faktor und politische Idee. 
          Baymirza Hayit Festschrift.  Prof. Dr. Erling von
          Mende, Editor. (Koln: Studienverlag, 1988)] 

     "Nationality and Religion: Three Observation from Omer
          Seyfettin"  
     [Central Asian Survey  (Oxford) Vol. 3, No. 3, 1985]

     "Koprulu/Veles (Yugoslavia) Ottoman Garrison's Response to
          the 1909 Recidivist Uprising in Istanbul: From the
          Memoirs of Omer Seyfettin"
     [Turkistan Newsletter Vol. 97-1:18a, 2 July 1997

     Happy Meleagris Gallopavo Day
     [Journal of American Studies of Turkey 6 (1997)]


     "Turkish History, Lavening of Cultures, Civilization"
     [Condensed from Annals of Japan Association for Middle East 
               Studies No. 7, 1992]

     "U.S. and Bolshevik Relations with the TBMM Government:  
               The First Contacts, 1919-1921" 
     [The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies No. 12 (1994)]