In the first half of the eighteenth century, rival dynasties of
Naqshbandi Sufi shaykhs 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 Western 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Translations from the Asian Classics |
| Release date: |
November 2020 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Translators: |
David Brophy
|
| Authors: |
Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-19818-9 |
| Subtitles: |
Uighur
|
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
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| LSN: |
0-231-19818-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780231198189 |
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