TY - JOUR
AB -  The Origins of the Karakhanids: A reconsideration B.D.Kochnev (Samarkand) The Karakhanids, the first great Central Asian dynasty of Turkish stock in the Islamic period, held power for more than three centuries, from the 9th down to the beginning of the 13th. On the turn of the 11th century, they conquered the Central Asian domains of the Samanids. At the period of their greatest expansion, their power ran in vast territories, in Eastern Turkestan, in the Semirechye, most of Central Asia, and at a given moment even over regions on the other side of the Amu Darya - Balkh. If one keeps in mind that the time when all these regions were a part of the Karakhanid kaganate \vitnessed intense developments in the fields of culture, economics, and urbanisation, as well as important processes in ethnogenesis and other social domains, the early and deep interest Western and Eastern scholars have devoted to the field of Karakhanid studies becomes easily understandable. One of the most important (but also most difficult) problems in Karakhanid history is about the ethnic definition of the dynasty. Scholars of more than one generation have addressed it, but the question is complicated by the fact that, 
TI - MISZELLE
JF - Der Islam
DO - 10.1515/islm.1996.73.2.352
DA - 1996-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/miszelle-4nF25fterm
SP - 352
EP - 357
VL - 73
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -