About This Book

Published by Publishing Without Walls, Urbana, Ill., part of the Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN). IOPN is the press of the University Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

ISBN (Online): 978-1-946011-25-1
ISBN (PDF): 978-1-946011-26-8

Please cite this book using the DOI:  https://doi.org/10.21900/pww.24.

Copyright

Copyright © 2025 Eva Rogaar, Joe Lenkart, and Katherine Ashcraft; individual chapter copyrights by the contributors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Cover design by Elizabeth Budd.

Cover photo: Library at the Bukhara Bazaar (1921), by Alexander N. Samoilovich from M.P. Samoilovich Archive. Presumed public domain.

For more on this photographer, see Anton Ikhsanov, “The Photographic Legacy of Alexander N. Samoilovich (1880–1938)” in Photographing Central Asia: From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence, edited by Svetlana Gorshenina, Sergei Abashin, Bruno De Cordier and Tatiana Saburova, (De Gruyter, 2022), 91-128.

Funding Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Illinois International (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (Indiana University), Humanities Research Institute (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), School of Information Sciences (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

Accessibility Statement

This publication is primarily written in English. Several chapters include words, phrases, and passages in languages spoken in Central Asia, including Korean, Tajik, Russian, Turkish, Turkmen, Kazakh, Rushani, Persian, and Arabic.

For passages written in a non-English language, we have added language tags identifying the passage’s language. Screen reader users may need to manually install or configure language voices or “language packs” for the screen reader to correctly read those passages. Chapter 9 also includes a short passage written in Rushani, which is currently classified as an endangered language and does not have a language code we can use for language tags. As such, passages in Rushani are tagged as <mis> to identify the current lack of support.