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BARTHOLD, W[asili].
Turkestan down to the Mongol Invasion.
Third Edition with an Additional Chapter, hitherto unpublished in English, translated by Mrs. T. Minorsky and edited by C. E. Bosworth, and further Addenda and Corrigenda by C. E. Bosworth.
Publisher: Printed for the Trustees of the "E. J. W. Gibb Memorial" and published by Messrs. Luzac and Company Ltd., 1968
Stock code: 48853
Price: £165 Currency Conversion
Preferred edition of Barthold's thesis, first published 1899-1900, and in English in 1928. Barthold was the pre-eminent Turcologist of his time, and did much to focus attention on the importance of Islam in central Asia. In 1913, he was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences. Between 1918 and 1921, he was the director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. After the Revolution, Barthold published three authoritative monographs on the history of Islam, namely Islam (1918), Muslim Culture (1918), and The Muslim World (1922), he also contributed to the development of Cyrillic writing for the Muslim countries of Central Asia. Most of his writings were translated in English, Arabic, and Persian. Barthold's collected works were reprinted in 9 volumes between 1963 and 1977, and whilst Soviet editors added footnotes deploring his "bourgeois" attitudes, his prestige was such that the text was left uncensored, despite not conforming to the Marxist interpretation of history.
Octavo, original black buckram, title gilt to spine. Folding coloured map at the rear. Very slightly rubbed, overall a very good copy.
