Shirin Akiner

Shirin Akiner

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

Richard Nelson Frye

male, 89 years old
Harvard University, pashto, pahlavi, iranologist, Office of Strategic Services, Persian language…CentralAsianStudies, Central Asia
Richard Nelson Frye (c. 1920) is an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at...
Olivier Roy

Olivier Roy

male, 60 years old
Secularism Confronts Islam, The Illusions of September 11, The Failure of Political Islam, Globalized Islam The search for a new ummah, political Islam, Islamic politics and Islamic world studies…CentralAsianStudies, Paris Institute of Political Studies
Olivier Roy (born 1949) is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a lecturer for both the School for...
Yuri Bregel

Yuri Bregel

male
Denis Sinor, Chaghatai, Dennis Sinor, Ta'rikh-e Rashidi, Atlas of Central Asian History, Centre for Uralic and Altaic Studies…Islamic politics and Islamic world studies, CentralAsianStudies
Yuri Bregel was born in the U.S.S.R., and studied in the Oriental Faculty of the University of St. Petersburg (then Leningrad State University)....

Daniel Waugh

male
Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy, International Studies, CentralAsianStudies, University of Washington faculty, Slavic and East European Languages and Literature…Central Asia
Daniel C. Waugh is a historian based at the University of Washington. He did his undergraduate work at Yale University, and in 1963 graduated with...
Ahmed Rashid

Ahmed Rashid

male, 61 years old
Postglobal, washington post, CentralAsianStudies, September 11, 2001 attacks, rawalpindi, BBC World
Ahmed Rashid (b. 1948 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling author. Rashid attended Malvern College, England, Government...
Zeki Velidi Togan

Zeki Velidi Togan

male, deceased (1970)
Turkologists, PhD, shura, Uyezd, madrassa, Turkistan…Central Asia, Khazar studies, CentralAsianStudies
Zeki Velidi Togan village of Sterlitamak uyezd, today Bashkortostan. After his emigration to Turkey, his name was turkicized as "Zeki Velidi Togan"...
Alexandre Bennigsen

Alexandre Bennigsen

male, deceased (1988)
st petersburg, islam, École des Hautes Études, CentralAsianStudies, Sovietologist Islam, Bennigsen school
Alexandre Bennigsen (20 March 1913, St Petersburg - 3 June 1988) was a scholar of Islam in the Soviet Union. Bennigsen was born in St Petersburg in...
Paul Pelliot

Paul Pelliot

male, deceased (1945)
linguist, Archaeologist, French, Sinologist, Standard, archaeological…Central Asia, CentralAsianStudies
Paul Pelliot was a French sinologist and explorer of Central Asia. A pupil of Sylvain Lévi, Pelliot conducted only one archaeological expedition i...
Svat Soucek

Svat Soucek

male
New York Public Library, CentralAsianStudies, Turkish Mapmaking After Columbus, A history of Inner Asia, Dr. Svat Soucek
Dr. Svat Soucek is a compiler and author of works in relation to Central Asia, and Central Asian studies and works in the oriental division of the...