Medieval Central Asia : Polity, Economy and Military Organization/Mansura
Haidar. New Delhi, Manohar, 2004, 525 p., ISBN 81-7304-554-2.
Medieval Central Asia : Polity, Economy and Military Organization/Mansura
Haidar. New Delhi, Manohar, 2004, 525 p., ISBN 81-7304-554-2.
Contents: 1. The state and polity in Turco-Mongol Central Asia. 2. The Kurultai and the Kangash. 3. Administration under the Samanids. 4. The administrative structure under the Uzbegs. 5. The Uzbeg state and nobility in the sixteenth - seventeenth centuries. 6. State and religion under Timur and his successors. 7. State and religion under the Uzbegs. 8. Military organization under Chingiz Khan. 9. Military organization under Timur and his successors. 10. Military organization under the Uzbegs. 11. Incendiary warfare and the use of firearms in Central Asia. 12. The tribes of the Central Asia steppes (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries). 13. Agriculture and agrarian relations of Central Asia. 14. System of taxation under the Uzbegs. 15. Workshops and markets. 16. Money, wages and prices. Index.
"This volume is the first of its kind as no other work based on original sources and exclusively dealing with the above subject in such detail is available. Central Asia has remained to be a world apart though its institutions, administrative terminology, methods of warfare, pattern of handicrafts seem to flicker in many other civilizations. The wide spectrum of the study and varied contents of this book depict multifarious aspects of Central Asian history ranging from civil to military organization, tribal to settled, agrarian to artisan population and the life and activities of Naqshbandi saints in the state business. It further deals with political setup, changing notions of state craft, economic structure, system of taxation which go to make the medieval Central Asian life come alive." (jacket)