Devin Deweese
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 458742 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Devin Deweese |
| NOMBRES | Devin |
| APELLIDO | Deweese |
| FIRMA | DEWEESE D |
| AFILIACIONES | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-4859-7982 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A ‘Missing’ Source on Eighteenth-Century Central Asia Rediscovered
This research note reports the rediscovery of a Persian manuscript in Istanbul that preserves several unique works from late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century Central Asia, mostly dealing with the historical, genealogical, and ritual profile of the Yasavī Sufi tradition and written by a certain Sayyid Aḥmad Nāṣir al-Dīn Marghīnānī, a native of the Farghāna valley. The manuscript was first brought to light nearly a century ago by Zeki Velidi…
Studies on Sufism in Central Asia
Studies on Sufism in Central Asia reproduces 12 studies which explore previously unstudied sources with an eye to identifying prominent developments in the social and organizational history of the major Sufi groupings of the region; The chronological range reflected in the studies included here runs from the 13th century to the 17th, with a somewhat uneven distribution between the earlier half of the period (13th-15th centuries, with six articles…
The Yasavī Order and Persian Hagiography in Seventeenth-Century Central Asia
Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk
Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk
This chapter explores the use of Persian as a literary language in the northern reaches of Muslim Inner Asia, above all the Volga-Ural region and Western Siberia, down to the 19 th century; it argues that Persian continued to serve as a language of learned communication, especially in particular fields, in these regions, despite the overwhelmingly Turkic-speaking Muslim population, and despite the steady increase in the production of literary wor…
The Mongols & the Islamic World
Peter Jackson’s superb and monumental study of the impacts of the Mongol conquests on the Islamic world is an impressive achievement, and one for which students of Mongol and Islamic history will be grateful for years to come. It is remarkable for the scope and reach of the author’s scholarship, and especially significant for the up-to-date coverage of, and engagement with, recently discovered sources and the latest scholarship on all parts of th…
Sufism in Central Asia
Sufism in Central Asia: New Perspectives on Sufi Traditions, 15th-21st Centuries brings together ten original studies on historical aspects of Sufism in this region. A central question, of ongoing significance, underlies each contribution: what is the relationship between Sufism as it was manifested in this region prior to the Russian conquest and the Soviet era, on the one hand, and the features of Islamic religious life in the region during the…
Organizational Patterns and Developments within Sufi Communities
Re-Envisioning the History of Sufi Communities in Central Asia
A Khwārazmian Saint in the Golden Horde
Un saint khwārazmien dans la Horde d’Or: Közlük Ata (Gözlī Ata)et les vecteurs sociaux de l’islamisation.La théorie selon laquelle les shaykhs et les communautés soufis jouèrent un rôle dans l’islamisation des khanats mongols aux xiiie et xvie siècles est fondée sur l’idée reçue que les soufis prêchèrent l’islam aux nomades (tout en simplifiant la doctrine) et qu’ils furent populaires auprès d’eux du fait qu’ils ressemblaient aux « saints » (sham…
K wangmin K im . Borderland Capitalism
Borderland Capitalism, Kwangmin Kim’s study of Eastern Turkistan under Qing rule in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is a mixed bag of interesting, original, and often insightful argumentation about economic developments in the region, based on newly sifted evidence from a wide range of Manchu and Chinese sources, and questionable claims and assumptions about the social dimensions of the region’s history that are perhaps in part sustainab…
It was a Dark and Stagnant Night (‘til the Jadids Brought the Light)
This essay presents a broad critique of prevailing approaches to and assumptions about Jadidism, arguing that much earlier scholarship on the Jadids has misconstrued key aspects of their ‘program’ and has exaggerated their originality, impact, and importance. Following introductory discussions of the recurrent motifs and claims found in ‘Jadidocentric’ scholarship, the essay considers five issues in particular: (1) the academic bias through which…
Moving Beyond Modernism
The introduction outlines the key issues underlying the contributions to the volume, problematizing the terminology and conceptual framework typically adopted in studies of Jadidism. Following a consideration of divergent definitions of Jadidism in existing scholarship, and some examples illustrating the recurrent motifs encountered in scholarly representations of the Jadids, the authors focus on four revisionist theses that frame the directions …
Telling Women’s Stories in 16th-Century Central Asia
This study explores a substantial work in Chaghatay Turkic produced in Bukhārā in the early 16th century for ʿĀʾisha Sulṭān Khānïm, wife of the 'Uzbek' Chinggisid ruler ʿUbaydullāh (nephew of Muḥammad Shïbānī Khān). The work, written by a certain Maḥmūd Andkhūdī, survives in a unique manuscript in Paris, but hitherto has not drawn scholarly attention (due to the misleading catalogue description, from the 1930s); it offers anecdotal commentaries a…
ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Simnānī’s Religious Encounters at the Mongol Court near Tabriz
This chapter outlines ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Simnānī's life and the development of his Sufi career: the diverse religious influences to which he was exposed during the critical period following his initial turn to Sufism, while in Ilkhanid service. That period saw an increasing tension between Simnānī's wish to withdraw from court service, and his growing desire to travel to Baghdad to meet a particular Sufi teacher, on the one hand, and the efforts of t…
Shamanization in Central Asia
A significant body of Muslim religious rites, with roots in Sufi devotional practice, continued to be conducted in Central Asia well into the Soviet era, despite Soviet antireligious policies and pressures. Reflecting communal adaptations of the Sufi dhikr, or "remembrance" of God, as part of healing or funerary ceremonies, these rites were reclassified, in Soviet ethnographic literature, as vestiges of "shamanism," and thus largely escaped notic…
Muslim medical culture in modern Central Asia
This article surveys the body of medical literature, in Arabic, Persian and Turkic, produced and circulated in Central Asia from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, on the basis of catalogues of Islamic manuscript collections in the region, highlighting royal patronage of medical knowledge as well as the continuation of traditional modes of transmitting medical lore into the colonial and Soviet periods. The survey is a reminder that indigenous …
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India By Kelly Pemberton
Kelly Pemberton’s book is a solid ethnographic study of contemporary Sufi communities in northern India, with a particular focus on the sometimes paradoxical roles of women in the life of those communities. As her title suggests (despite the vagueness of the term ‘mystics’), her subject is not simply the shrine-centred rites performed by pilgrims and visitors to, or by residents at, particular holy sites, but rather the ritual, devotional, and in…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval Sufi Communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India
The problem of the corporate identities of medieval Sufi communities in the eastern Islamic world, from the Mongol conquest through the Timurid era, is a central issue for understanding the emergence of important Sufi 'orders' that dominated Sufi thought and organization in subsequent times. As such, this problem is of significance for the history of Sufism in general, and for the social history of the Muslim world since the 15th century, but the…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia * By Maria Elisabeth Louw
Succession Protocols and the Early Khwajagani Schism in the Maslak al-lhringarifin
The history of the Central Asian Sufi community known as the Khwājagān, most familiar as the precursor of the Naqshbandīya, is marked by an important early split between two primary factions over issues of proper succession and practice. This split, reflected in a variety of early sources, is most clearly outlined in the earliest known Khwajagani text, a fourteenth-century Persian work entitled Maslak al-ʿārifīn, produced within the faction that …
Islamization in the Mongol Empire
Understanding the historical process of Islamization in the Mongol-ruled world, and amongst the Mongols themselves, is complicated by the nature of the sources, often themselves religious in their inspiration, through which we see the effects of that process, and even more so by the assumptions we bring to the issue of religious conversion and how it ought to be measured or detected. In both regards, it is important to ask questions of our source…
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia
This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Eur…
The Eclipse of the Kubravīyah in Central Asia
From the 12th to the 14th centuries three major Sufi orders took shape in Central Asia: the Yasavīyah, derived from Khoja Ahmad Yasavī of the town known later as Turkistan; the Kubravīyah, founded by Najm al-Dīn Kubrā in Khwarazm; and the Naqshbandīyah, named after Bahā’ al-Dīn Naqshband of Bukhārā. Of the three, the Yasavīyah remained an almost exclusively Central Asian ṭarīqah with particular appeal to the Turkic population, while the Naqshband…
The Politics of Sacred Lineages in 19th-Century Central Asia
Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi, the celebrated saint of Central Asia who lived most likely in the late 12th century, is perhaps best known as a Sufi shaykh and (no doubt erroneously) as a mystical poet; his shrine in the town now known as Turkistan, in southern Kazakhstan, has been an important religious center in Central Asia at least since the monumental mausoleum that still stands was built, by order of Timur, at the end of the 14th century. While Yasavi…
Shamanization in Central Asia
A significant body of Muslim religious rites, with roots in Sufi devotional practice, continued to be conducted in Central Asia well into the Soviet era, despite Soviet antireligious policies and pressures. Reflecting communal adaptations of the Sufi dhikr, or "remembrance" of God, as part of healing or funerary ceremonies, these rites were reclassified, in Soviet ethnographic literature, as vestiges of "shamanism," and thus largely escaped notic…
It was a Dark and Stagnant Night (‘til the Jadids Brought the Light)
This essay presents a broad critique of prevailing approaches to and assumptions about Jadidism, arguing that much earlier scholarship on the Jadids has misconstrued key aspects of their ‘program’ and has exaggerated their originality, impact, and importance. Following introductory discussions of the recurrent motifs and claims found in ‘Jadidocentric’ scholarship, the essay considers five issues in particular: (1) the academic bias through which…
Sacred Places and ‘Public’ Narratives
The Masha'ikh-I Turk and the Khojagan
Journal Article THE MASHĀ'IKH-I TURK AND THE KHOJAGĀN: RETHINKING THE LINKS BETWEEN THE YASAVĪ AND NAQSHBANDĪ SUFI TRADITIONS Get access DEVIN DEWEESE DEVIN DEWEESE Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2, July 1996, Pages 180–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/7.2.180 Published: 01 July 1996
Yasavī Šayḫs in the Timurid era
Moving Beyond Modernism
The introduction outlines the key issues underlying the contributions to the volume, problematizing the terminology and conceptual framework typically adopted in studies of Jadidism. Following a consideration of divergent definitions of Jadidism in existing scholarship, and some examples illustrating the recurrent motifs encountered in scholarly representations of the Jadids, the authors focus on four revisionist theses that frame the directions …
Sacred History for a Central Asian TownSaints, Shrines, and Legends of Origin inHistories of Sayrām, 18th-19th Centuries
Cet article étudie les mythes historiques concernant Sayrām, une petite ville du sud de l'actuel Kazakhstan, cas exemplaire de concepts indigènes d'identité communautaire en Asie centrale pré-soviétique. Ces traditions sont conservées dans un ensemble de travaux en turc, sous le titre générique de « Histoire de Sayrām », qui combine une « histoire sacrée » de la ville avec une « géographie sacrée » sous la forme d'un catalogue de mausolées locaux…
The Descendants of Sayyid Ata and the Rank of Naqīb in Central Asia
Les sources historiques d'Asie Centrale de la dynastie Ouzbeke (XVIe-XIXe s.) decrivent le naqīb comme un haut fonctionnaire administratif, charge de hautes responsabilites militaires et comme l'une des places les plus honorees lors des ceremonies des cours des khans. Plusieurs titulaires de ce titre etaient des descendants de Sayyid Ata, personnage saint Soufi du XIVe s. auquel on attribue traditionellement un role central dans l'islamisation du…
A Khwārazmian Saint in the Golden Horde
Un saint khwārazmien dans la Horde d’Or: Közlük Ata (Gözlī Ata)et les vecteurs sociaux de l’islamisation.La théorie selon laquelle les shaykhs et les communautés soufis jouèrent un rôle dans l’islamisation des khanats mongols aux xiiie et xvie siècles est fondée sur l’idée reçue que les soufis prêchèrent l’islam aux nomades (tout en simplifiant la doctrine) et qu’ils furent populaires auprès d’eux du fait qu’ils ressemblaient aux « saints » (sham…
Muslim medical culture in modern Central Asia
This article surveys the body of medical literature, in Arabic, Persian and Turkic, produced and circulated in Central Asia from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, on the basis of catalogues of Islamic manuscript collections in the region, highlighting royal patronage of medical knowledge as well as the continuation of traditional modes of transmitting medical lore into the colonial and Soviet periods. The survey is a reminder that indigenous …
Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia * By Maria Elisabeth Louw
Islam after Communism
Journal Article Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia By Adeeb Khalid Get access Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central AsiaBy Adeeb Khalid (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), xv, 241 pp. Price HB $55.00. EAN 978–0–520–24204–3. Devin DeWeese Devin DeWeese Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 19, Issue 1, …
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The Eclipse of the Kubravīyah in Central Asia
From the 12th to the 14th centuries three major Sufi orders took shape in Central Asia: the Yasavīyah, derived from Khoja Ahmad Yasavī of the town known later as Turkistan; the Kubravīyah, founded by Najm al-Dīn Kubrā in Khwarazm; and the Naqshbandīyah, named after Bahā’ al-Dīn Naqshband of Bukhārā. Of the three, the Yasavīyah remained an almost exclusively Central Asian ṭarīqah with particular appeal to the Turkic population, while the Naqshband…
Entre Timourides, Uzbeks et Safavides
The Descendants of Sayyid Ata and the Rank of Naqīb in Central Asia
Les sources historiques d'Asie Centrale de la dynastie Ouzbeke (XVIe-XIXe s.) decrivent le naqīb comme un haut fonctionnaire administratif, charge de hautes responsabilites militaires et comme l'une des places les plus honorees lors des ceremonies des cours des khans. Plusieurs titulaires de ce titre etaient des descendants de Sayyid Ata, personnage saint Soufi du XIVe s. auquel on attribue traditionellement un role central dans l'islamisation du…
The Masha'ikh-I Turk and the Khojagan
Journal Article THE MASHĀ'IKH-I TURK AND THE KHOJAGĀN: RETHINKING THE LINKS BETWEEN THE YASAVĪ AND NAQSHBANDĪ SUFI TRADITIONS Get access DEVIN DEWEESE DEVIN DEWEESE Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2, July 1996, Pages 180–207, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/7.2.180 Published: 01 July 1996
Yasavī Šayḫs in the Timurid era
Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde
The Politics of Sacred Lineages in 19th-Century Central Asia
Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi, the celebrated saint of Central Asia who lived most likely in the late 12th century, is perhaps best known as a Sufi shaykh and (no doubt erroneously) as a mystical poet; his shrine in the town now known as Turkistan, in southern Kazakhstan, has been an important religious center in Central Asia at least since the monumental mausoleum that still stands was built, by order of Timur, at the end of the 14th century. While Yasavi…
Dog saints and Dog Shrines in Kubravī tradition. Notes on an Hagiographical Motif of Khwārazm
La reconnaissance du miracle suscita des discussions théologiques dans le christianisme comme dans l’islam. Mais alors qu’une pratique du miracle sur les tombes des saints chrétiens est attestée par les collections de Miracula, la littérature hagiographique musulmane reste généralement sobre en la matière, même lorsqu’il s’agit de saints réputés pour leurs charismes. Les articles de ce volume tentent de déterminer les raisons de ces réticences et…
Sacred History for a Central Asian TownSaints, Shrines, and Legends of Origin inHistories of Sayrām, 18th-19th Centuries
Cet article étudie les mythes historiques concernant Sayrām, une petite ville du sud de l'actuel Kazakhstan, cas exemplaire de concepts indigènes d'identité communautaire en Asie centrale pré-soviétique. Ces traditions sont conservées dans un ensemble de travaux en turc, sous le titre générique de « Histoire de Sayrām », qui combine une « histoire sacrée » de la ville avec une « géographie sacrée » sous la forme d'un catalogue de mausolées locaux…
Sacred Places and ‘Public’ Narratives
Islam and the Legacy of Sovietology
Brill’s Inner Asian Library
Islam after Communism
Journal Article Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia By Adeeb Khalid Get access Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central AsiaBy Adeeb Khalid (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), xv, 241 pp. Price HB $55.00. EAN 978–0–520–24204–3. Devin DeWeese Devin DeWeese Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 19, Issue 1, …
The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam
Journal Article The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry. By Omid Safi Get access The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry. By Omid Safi. The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. liii + 292 pages. $24.95 Devin DeWeese Devin DeWeese Indiana University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journ…
The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam
Islamization in the Mongol Empire
Understanding the historical process of Islamization in the Mongol-ruled world, and amongst the Mongols themselves, is complicated by the nature of the sources, often themselves religious in their inspiration, through which we see the effects of that process, and even more so by the assumptions we bring to the issue of religious conversion and how it ought to be measured or detected. In both regards, it is important to ask questions of our source…
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia
This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Eur…
Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia * By Maria Elisabeth Louw
Succession Protocols and the Early Khwajagani Schism in the Maslak al-lhringarifin
The history of the Central Asian Sufi community known as the Khwājagān, most familiar as the precursor of the Naqshbandīya, is marked by an important early split between two primary factions over issues of proper succession and practice. This split, reflected in a variety of early sources, is most clearly outlined in the earliest known Khwajagani text, a fourteenth-century Persian work entitled Maslak al-ʿārifīn, produced within the faction that …
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
Spiritual Practice and Corporate Identity in Medieval Sufi Communities of Iran, Central Asia, and India
The problem of the corporate identities of medieval Sufi communities in the eastern Islamic world, from the Mongol conquest through the Timurid era, is a central issue for understanding the emergence of important Sufi 'orders' that dominated Sufi thought and organization in subsequent times. As such, this problem is of significance for the history of Sufism in general, and for the social history of the Muslim world since the 15th century, but the…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India By Kelly Pemberton
Kelly Pemberton’s book is a solid ethnographic study of contemporary Sufi communities in northern India, with a particular focus on the sometimes paradoxical roles of women in the life of those communities. As her title suggests (despite the vagueness of the term ‘mystics’), her subject is not simply the shrine-centred rites performed by pilgrims and visitors to, or by residents at, particular holy sites, but rather the ritual, devotional, and in…
Muslim medical culture in modern Central Asia
This article surveys the body of medical literature, in Arabic, Persian and Turkic, produced and circulated in Central Asia from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, on the basis of catalogues of Islamic manuscript collections in the region, highlighting royal patronage of medical knowledge as well as the continuation of traditional modes of transmitting medical lore into the colonial and Soviet periods. The survey is a reminder that indigenous …
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