Francis Younghusband

Francis Younghusband

male, deceased (1942)
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, explorer, British Army soldier, British Indian Army officer, far east, CentralAsia…Central Asian Studies, Explorer of Asia
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (31 May, 1863 - 31 July, 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist. He is...
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

male
ussr, Islamic Human Rights Commission, pipelines, Pipeline transport, September 11, 2001, George W. Bush administration…CentralAsia
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a London-born author and political scientist specializing in interdisciplinary security studies. He teaches International...
Shirin Akiner

Shirin Akiner

female
kazakhstan, historian, Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies, Central Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, uzbekistan…CentralAsia
Shirin Akiner is a lecturer in Central Asian Studies at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has produced many...
Nasir Khusraw

Nasir Khusraw

male, deceased (1088)
Yamgan, Yamagan, Khusrow, Badakhshan, Common Era, Balkh…CentralAsia
Abu Mo’in Hamid al-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nasir Khusraw Qubadyani [also spelled "Khusrow"] (1004 - 1088 CE) was a Persian poet, ph...
Paul Pelliot

Paul Pelliot

male, deceased (1945)
linguist, Archaeologist, French, Sinologist, Standard, archaeological…CentralAsia, Central Asian Studies
Paul Pelliot was a French sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. A pupil of Sylvain Lévi, Pelliot conducted only one archaeological expedition i...
Ali Ahmad Jalali

Ali Ahmad Jalali

male
Taj Mohammad Wardak, Politician of Afghanistan, Persian language, VOA, Soviets, U.S. citizen…CentralAsia
Ali Ahmad Jalali was the Interior Minister of Afghanistan from January 2003 to September 2005. He is now a Distinguished Professor at the Near East...
Timur

Timur

male, deceased (1405)
Aqsaq Timur, Culture of Iran, Ghazw, Persian culture, Mongols, Turkic…CentralAsia
Tīmūr bin Tara<u>gh</u>ay Barlas, known in the West as Tamburlaine, was a 14th century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent, conqueror of much of We...
Victor H. Mair

Victor H. Mair

male
american philosophical society, Harvard University, Sino-Platonic Papers, Columbia History of Chinese Literature, Dao De Jing, Vernacular Chinese…East Asia, CentralAsia
Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of...
Henry Yule

Henry Yule

male, deceased (1880)
Scottish, Inveresk, Council of India, oxford english dictionary, oriental, memoir…CentralAsia
Sir Henry Yule (May 1, 1820 - December 30, 1889), was a Scottish Orientalist. He was born at Inveresk, Scotland, near Edinburgh, the son of Major...
Owen Lattimore

Owen Lattimore

male, deceased (1989)
American expatriate in China, spy, Non-fiction writer, washington post, American, Academic…CentralAsia
Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 - May 31, 1989) was a U.S. author and educator, the most influential American scholar of Central Asia in the 20th...