The Transformation of Tajikistan

The Sources of Statehood

John Heathershaw, Edmund Herzig

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415500159
• eBook ISBN: 9781135697679
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Tajikistan is one of the lesser-known and least-researched former Soviet Central Asian republics. The birth of the new state in 1991 was followed closely by a civil war which killed more than 50, 000 people and displaced many tens of thousands more. While a peace agreement was signed in 1997, significant political violence continued until 2001 and intermittent outbreaks still occur today. Many claim it remains a very weak state and perhaps in danger of state failure or a return to civil war. However, the revival of Tajikistan should not simply be seen in terms of its post-conflict stabilization. Since its creation as a republic of the Soviet Union in 1920s, Tajikistan has been transformed from being a shell for socialist engineering to become a national society under a modern state. Despite a multitude of economic, social and political shocks, the Republic of Tajikistan endures.

This book places the transformation of Tajikistan in its Soviet and Post-Soviet historical settings and local and global contexts. It explores the sources of a state with Soviet roots but which has been radically transformed by independence and its exposure to global politics and economics. The authors address the sources of statehood in history, Islam and secularism, gender relations, the economy, international politics and security affairs.

This book is a new edition of a special issue of Central Asian Survey, 'Tajikistan: the sources of statehood', including two additional papers and a revised introduction.

Index

Note: Page references in bold type denote figures and page numbers followed by ‘n’ refer to notes

Abdullo, Z. 102

Abrams, P. 4

Abrams, P 184

Abulhayev, R. 62n

Academy of Sciences (Tajik): History of Tajik people 163

adab (courtesy and refinement) 76–7, 78, 82, 83, 84, 86

Adams, L. 4

administrative apparatuses 186–91

Afghanicization 180–1

Afghanistan 145

Agnew, 181

ahistorical analysis 183

Akhbarzadeh, S. 6

Al-Bukhari 107n

al-Dīn, Īšān Sayyid Imān 82, 87n

al-Dīn, Mah̲dūm Burhān 81–2

al-Dīn, Šayh̲ Īšān Quṭb 70, 71, 87n

al-Dīn, Šayh̲ Maṣlaḥat 70

al-Raḥmān-Jān, Īšān Sayyid Ἁbd 70, 77, 81, 81, 83, 84, 86

al-Rašīd, Qāzī Ἁbd 73–5, 74, 81, 85, 89n

al-Sattār, Qāzī Dāmullā Ἁbd 83

alcohol consumption 103

Ali 113–16, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121

alienation 50

Alimova, D.: and Rtveladze, E. 163

almsgiving (zakot) 43

aluminium 187

ambiguities: of post-colonial statehood 178

analysis: by consensus 183

ancient autochthon people 164

Andarsai 41

Ansol Company 188, 189

anti-religious policy 95

archival sources: scanty 68

ariophily (Barthold) 167

Armao, F. 156

armed conflict 193n

armed forces: Russian 147

arranged marriage 115–17, 118

artefacts: Samanid architectural 172

Arvanitaki, S. 62n

Aryan Civilization Year (2006) 166, 167

Aryanism 5, 6, 166–7, 174n

Ashurov, G. 165

Askarov, A.: The Aryan issue: new approaches an...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Introduction: the transformation of Tajikistan
• The roots of statehood
• Islam and statehood
• Gender, family and statehood
• Security, the international and statehood
• Index