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                             ESSAYS
                             ON
                             CENTRAL ASIA

                             H. B. Paksoy

Copyright H. B. Paksoy 1999
Library of Congress Register of Copyrights


                             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 Ara�t�rmalar� 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)]