Thomas Welsford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Welsford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Welsford |
| SIGNATURE | WELSFORD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Red Star over the Black Sea: Nâzim Hikmet and His Generation By James H. Meyer
Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan By Allen J. Frank
At some point in 1943, Allen J. Frank relates (pp. 103–4, 127), in the latest of his fascinating studies of religious life in the Volga-Ural region and the Kazakh steppe, a Kazakh khoja named Däuĭt-Qozha Berdĭsügĭrŭlï was thrown into prison. Däuĭt-Qozha had been working as a shepherd, and his crime was to have mislaid 4 or 5 sheep. While he was in prison, strange happenings occurred: a visiting inspector noticed that one of the cell doors never s…
Central Asian Pilgrims: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits Between Central Asia and the Hijaz
Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia Edited by Pauline Jones
From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule By Jeronim Perović
The fourteenth-billed character in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008) is ‘The Chechen’. The Chechen is a villain: a gangster who joins forces with the Joker in the hope of reducing Gotham to a state of chaos. His name, we may presume, is not coincidental: according to a centuries-long trope in the Russian and wider European cultural imagination, defying the forces of law and order—whether embodied by tsar, politburo or Gary Oldman’s haras…
The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance By Elena L. Campbell
In the mid nineteenth century, Elena Campbell tells us in her fine new monograph, Russian ruling attitudes towards Islam underwent a significant change. Since the 1780s, there had formerly prevailed a belief that, by according religious protection to the empire’s Muslim inhabitants in the Volga-Ural region and elsewhere, St Petersburg might secure these people’s loyalty not only as quiescent subjects but also as agents and intermediaries in an on…
Horizons of the World: Festschrift for İsenbike Togan / Hudûdü’l-Âlem: İsenbike Togan’a Armağan. Edited by İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel. Istanbul, İthaki Yayınları, 2011
Horizons of the World: Festschrift for İsenbike Togan / Hudûdü’l-Âlem: İsenbike Togan’a Armağan. Edited by İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel . Istanbul, İthaki Yayınları, 2011. - Volume 25 Issue 3
Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige By Allen J. Frank
In the mid-nineteenth century, Allen Frank tells us, in his richly detailed study of the relationship between Russian Muslims and the city of Bukhara, Siberian Tatar women used to observe the Transoxianan fashion of blackening their teeth and painting their fingernails yellow and red; among their menfolk, it was the custom to shave one’s head with a Bukharan razor. Whether as a trendsetter in grooming styles or a revered centre of piety and learn…
Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia: The Tūqāy-Tīmūrid Takeover of Greater Mā Warā al-Nahr, 1598-1605
At the turn of the seventeenth century, a new dynastic party established authority across Central Asia. In Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia, Thomas Welsford offers the first detailed account of how and why this happened. By examining some of the ways in which various social groupings helped to facilitate the Tūqāy-Tīmūrids' acquisition of power, Welsford considers how such an instance of dynastic change might reflect the shiftin…
The Rabbit, the Duck, and the Study of Central Asian Legal Documents
The present paper conceptualises two distinct ways in which scholars may try to make sense of a document or set of documents, and considers why so few attempts are made to marry these two approaches. By subjecting the collected contents of an early 20 th -century documentary scroll from Nasaf first to an ‘evocative’ reading and then to an ‘antiphonal’ one, I consider what we may glean from considering each reading in the light of the other
Central Asian Pilgrims.: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz.
Striving Striving to fulfil one of the five pillars of Islam, Central Asian believers covered considerable distances to reach Mecca. This book is the story of their endeavours and their successes. Based on the proceedings of an international conference held in Tashkent, the collection brings together eleven essays on hajj pilgrims and networks, each written by a leading scholar in the field of Islamic and Central Asian studies and drawing upon ne…
Islamic Art and Architecture in the European Periphery: Crimea, Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural Region * Edited by Barbara KELLNER-Heinkele, Joachim GIERLICHS, and BRIGITTE Heuer
Writing in the preface to this collection of papers—the adapted proceedings of an international symposium held in Berlin in 2004—the editors convey some of the difficulties which they negotiated while midwifing the volume through to publication. First at the conference itself, and then during the sifting of written submissions, they encountered among their contributors not only that wide range of ‘diverse academic backgrounds’ which one would exp…
The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant * by Michael Axworthy
Two hundred years ago, the life and achievements of Nādir Shāh—often accounted the last great military genius of pre-modern Central Eurasia—constituted objects of common literary knowledge. Within a few years of Nādir's death in 1747, European readers were devouring lurid accounts by the likes of James Fraser, Jonas Hanway and V. Bratishchev of the dazzling exploits undertaken by the Qizilbāsh warlord in successive campaigns against Afghans, Otto…
Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia: The Tūqāy-Tīmūrid Takeover of Greater Mā Warā al-Nahr, 1598-1605
At the turn of the seventeenth century, a new dynastic party established authority across Central Asia. In Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia, Thomas Welsford offers the first detailed account of how and why this happened. By examining some of the ways in which various social groupings helped to facilitate the Tūqāy-Tīmūrids' acquisition of power, Welsford considers how such an instance of dynastic change might reflect the shiftin…
The Rabbit, the Duck, and the Study of Central Asian Legal Documents
The present paper conceptualises two distinct ways in which scholars may try to make sense of a document or set of documents, and considers why so few attempts are made to marry these two approaches. By subjecting the collected contents of an early 20 th -century documentary scroll from Nasaf first to an ‘evocative’ reading and then to an ‘antiphonal’ one, I consider what we may glean from considering each reading in the light of the other
The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant * by Michael Axworthy
Two hundred years ago, the life and achievements of Nādir Shāh—often accounted the last great military genius of pre-modern Central Eurasia—constituted objects of common literary knowledge. Within a few years of Nādir's death in 1747, European readers were devouring lurid accounts by the likes of James Fraser, Jonas Hanway and V. Bratishchev of the dazzling exploits undertaken by the Qizilbāsh warlord in successive campaigns against Afghans, Otto…
Islamic Art and Architecture in the European Periphery: Crimea, Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural Region * Edited by Barbara KELLNER-Heinkele, Joachim GIERLICHS, and BRIGITTE Heuer
Writing in the preface to this collection of papers—the adapted proceedings of an international symposium held in Berlin in 2004—the editors convey some of the difficulties which they negotiated while midwifing the volume through to publication. First at the conference itself, and then during the sifting of written submissions, they encountered among their contributors not only that wide range of ‘diverse academic backgrounds’ which one would exp…
Central Asian Pilgrims.: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz.
Striving Striving to fulfil one of the five pillars of Islam, Central Asian believers covered considerable distances to reach Mecca. This book is the story of their endeavours and their successes. Based on the proceedings of an international conference held in Tashkent, the collection brings together eleven essays on hajj pilgrims and networks, each written by a leading scholar in the field of Islamic and Central Asian studies and drawing upon ne…
The Rabbit, the Duck, and the Study of Central Asian Legal Documents
The present paper conceptualises two distinct ways in which scholars may try to make sense of a document or set of documents, and considers why so few attempts are made to marry these two approaches. By subjecting the collected contents of an early 20 th -century documentary scroll from Nasaf first to an ‘evocative’ reading and then to an ‘antiphonal’ one, I consider what we may glean from considering each reading in the light of the other
Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia: The Tūqāy-Tīmūrid Takeover of Greater Mā Warā al-Nahr, 1598-1605
At the turn of the seventeenth century, a new dynastic party established authority across Central Asia. In Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia, Thomas Welsford offers the first detailed account of how and why this happened. By examining some of the ways in which various social groupings helped to facilitate the Tūqāy-Tīmūrids' acquisition of power, Welsford considers how such an instance of dynastic change might reflect the shiftin…
Horizons of the World: Festschrift for İsenbike Togan / Hudûdü’l-Âlem: İsenbike Togan’a Armağan. Edited by İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel. Istanbul, İthaki Yayınları, 2011
Horizons of the World: Festschrift for İsenbike Togan / Hudûdü’l-Âlem: İsenbike Togan’a Armağan. Edited by İlker Evrim Binbaş and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel . Istanbul, İthaki Yayınları, 2011. - Volume 25 Issue 3
Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia: Sufism, Education, and the Paradox of Islamic Prestige By Allen J. Frank
In the mid-nineteenth century, Allen Frank tells us, in his richly detailed study of the relationship between Russian Muslims and the city of Bukhara, Siberian Tatar women used to observe the Transoxianan fashion of blackening their teeth and painting their fingernails yellow and red; among their menfolk, it was the custom to shave one’s head with a Bukharan razor. Whether as a trendsetter in grooming styles or a revered centre of piety and learn…
The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance By Elena L. Campbell
In the mid nineteenth century, Elena Campbell tells us in her fine new monograph, Russian ruling attitudes towards Islam underwent a significant change. Since the 1780s, there had formerly prevailed a belief that, by according religious protection to the empire’s Muslim inhabitants in the Volga-Ural region and elsewhere, St Petersburg might secure these people’s loyalty not only as quiescent subjects but also as agents and intermediaries in an on…
Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia Edited by Pauline Jones
From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule By Jeronim Perović
The fourteenth-billed character in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008) is ‘The Chechen’. The Chechen is a villain: a gangster who joins forces with the Joker in the hope of reducing Gotham to a state of chaos. His name, we may presume, is not coincidental: according to a centuries-long trope in the Russian and wider European cultural imagination, defying the forces of law and order—whether embodied by tsar, politburo or Gary Oldman’s haras…
Central Asian Pilgrims: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits Between Central Asia and the Hijaz
Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan By Allen J. Frank
At some point in 1943, Allen J. Frank relates (pp. 103–4, 127), in the latest of his fascinating studies of religious life in the Volga-Ural region and the Kazakh steppe, a Kazakh khoja named Däuĭt-Qozha Berdĭsügĭrŭlï was thrown into prison. Däuĭt-Qozha had been working as a shepherd, and his crime was to have mislaid 4 or 5 sheep. While he was in prison, strange happenings occurred: a visiting inspector noticed that one of the cell doors never s…
Red Star over the Black Sea: Nâzim Hikmet and His Generation By James H. Meyer
Ancient history (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)