The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, ed.-trans. W.M. Thackston (Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1995). 
 [Olin Level 3 Stacks; The Middle East Journal vol. 51 i.2; DS1 M5]

René Grousset.  1970.  Empire of the Steppes.  Rutgers University Press. [Level 3 stacks D519 G7613]

Owen Lattimore.  1961 [1951].  Inner Asian Frontiers of China. [level 3 stacks; DS706.5 L3 1951] 

Thomas J. Barfield.  1989. The Perilous Frontier. Nomadic Empires and China.  Cambridge, MA: B. Blackwell. [level 3; D5329.4 B37 1989] 

R.D. McChesney.  1991.  Waqf in Central Asia. Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 (Princeton). [level B; BP187.55 A3 B345 1991]

Togan, Isenbike.  1998.  Flexibility and limitation in steppe formations : the Kerait Khanate and Chinggis Khan. Leiden ; New York : Brill.  xxii, 192 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. [level 3; DK858 T64 1998] 

General Works on Central Asia

Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples, Turcologica 9 (Wiesbaden, 1992).[level 3 DS 26 G6 1992]

C.J. Halperin, Russia and the Golden Horde. The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History (Bloomington, 1985). [level 3; DK90 H28 1985]

Andre Gunter Frank.  The Centrality of Central Asia. [ level 3; DS329.4 F73 1992] 

Garnet, Sherman W., Alexander Rahr, and Koji Watanabe.  2000.  The New Central Asia:  In Search of Stability.  New York:  The Trilateral Commission. 
[level 3; DK859.57 G37 2000]

Scott Levi.  2002.  The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and Its Trade, 1550-1900.  Brill. [N/A]

Glenn, John.  1999.  The Soviet Legacy in Central Asia.  New York:  St Martins. [level 3; DK859.56 .G57 1999] 

Caucasus

Altstadt, Audrey L.  1992  The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and identity under Russian rule.  Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press.  331 pp. map.  /Studies of nationalities/. [level 3; DK696.6 A48 1992] 

Anne Nivat.  2001.  Chied de Guerre:  A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya. [ level 3 DK511.C37 N5813 2001]

Anna Politkovskaia.  2004.  A Small Corner of Hell:  Dispatches from Chechnya. [level 3; DK511.C37 T572 2004] 

Tishkov, Valerii Aleksandrovich.  2004.  Chechnya : life in a war-torn society.  With a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev.  Berkeley: University of California Press.  Pp. xviii, 284. 

Goltz, Thomas.  2003.  Chechnya diary : a war correspondent's story of surviving the war in Chechnya.  New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press.  Pp. xii, 285 p. : ill., map. [level 3; DK511.C37 G65 2003]

Oil and Resources in Central Asia

The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia   by Lutz Kleveman  Atlantic Monthly Press. [Atlantic Monthly in Library or in expanded academic index 11/01/93-present]

Ethnography of [ex] Soviet Central Asia and Xinjiang

E.E. Bacon, Central Asians under Russian Rule. A Study in Culture Change (Ithaca, 1966). [level 3 DK855.2 B3]

Bruce Privatsky.  2001.  Muslim Turkistan.  Kazakh Religion and Collective Memory. [N/A]

Khazanov, Anatoly M. (Anatoly Michailovich).  1984.  Nomads and the outside world.  translated by Julia Crookenden ; with a foreword by Ernest Gellner.  Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. [level 2 GN387 K4519 1984]

Poliakov, Sergei Petrovich. 1992.  [Bytovoi islam].  Everyday Islam : religion and tradition in rural Central Asia.  Edited with an introduction by Martha Brill Olcott; translated by Anthony Olcott.  Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe.  xxvi, 155 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm [full text through JSTOR Arts and Sciences II Collection]

Justin Jon Rudelson.  1997.  Oasis identities: Uyghur nationalism along China's Silk Road.  New York: Columbia University.  [The only current anthropological study of Uyghur society]  http://www.utoledo.edu/~nlight/uyghdisc.htm [level 3 DS731 U4 R84 1997]
 

Post-Soviet Central Asian States

Olivier Roy.2001. The New Central Asia:  The Creation of Nations. NYU [0-8147-7554-3] [level 3; DK 859.5 .R6813 2000]

Gregory Gleason.  1997. The Central Asian States. Discovering Independence (Boulder, CO, 1997). [level 2; JQ1070 G54 1997]

Richard Pomfret (Author).  1995.  The Economies of Central Asia.  Princeton. [level 2 HC420.3 P76 1995]

Adrienne Lynn Edgar.  2004.  Tribal Nation : The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan.  Princeton University Press (September 17, 2004).  304 pages ISBN: 0691117756 [N/A]

Khazanov, Anatoly M. (Anatoly Michailovich).  1995.  After the USSR : ethnicity, nationalism and politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press. [level 3; DK 33 K4527 1995]

Colette Harris.  2004.  Control and Subversion:  Gender Relations in Tajikistan.  [N/A]
{Control and Subversion makes an important contribution to the study of  Muslim societies in general, while also being a unique study of a neglected  area - post-Soviet Tajikistan - a country gaining increasing importance in  the international arena of Central Asia. The book presents an intimate view  of this society, told through ethnographically collected life histories,  unusually including men's as well as women's. Despite developing significant  gender theories (notably reframing work of Judith Butler), and maintaining  high academic standards, it remains as readable as a popular novel.  Control and Subversion investigates the relationship of gender to the inner  workings of social control, such as exposing ways in which Tajik society  threatens men's masculinity, thereby bringing them to force family members  into conformity, irrespective of the suffering this may cause. It examines  how masculine and feminine gender characteristics influence personal  relationships and explores gender relations at their most intimate - from  the secret musings of adolescent girls, through the painful experiences of  young men, to the trauma of sexual initiation. Although largely  concentrating on contemporary life, the book also discusses historical  materials and Soviet influence on Tajik society. Control and Subversion is  essential reading for anyone interested in Central Asia, Muslim societies,  the lives of Muslim women, or gender in a Muslim context.  Colette Harris is a researcher specializing in gender and development, with  particular interests in family relations, sexuality and domestic violence.  She is currently program director, women in international development at the  Office of International Research, Education and Development of Virginia Tech  University in the States. . 2004 / 216 pp  Pb / 0745321674}

Baldick, Julian.  1993.  Imaginary Muslims: The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia.  London: I. B. Tauris. [level B stacks; BP188.8 C62 S563 1993] 

Modern Central Asian Movements

Adeeb Khalid. 1998.  The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform. Jadidism in Central Asia, Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies 27 (Berkeley).  [level B stacks BP63.A34 K54 1998]

Ahmed Rashid.  2002. Jihad:  The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia.  Penguin [level  3; DS329.4 .R38 2002]

Afghanistan

Anne E. Brodsky.  2004.  With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.  Routledge.

David Edwards.  1996.  Heroes of the Age:  Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier.  Berkeley:  University of California.

David Edwards.  2002.  Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jehad.  Berkeley:  University of California.  [level 3; DS371.2 .E38 2002]

Larry P. Goodson, Afghanistan’s Endless War. State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001). [level 3; DS371.3 .G66 2001]

Kristian Berg Harpviken. 1986. "Political Mobilization among the Hazara of Afghanistan: 1978-1992," (Oslo: Institutt for Sosiologi, Universisteteti Oslo (M.A. Thesis). [N/A]

Hasan Kakar: Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and Afghan Response. 1979-1982 [level 3; DS371.2 K3 1995]

Margaret Mills.  1991.  Rhetorics and Politics in Afghan Traditional Storytelling.  [level 2; GR 302.7 H47 M54 1991]

Ahmed Rashid.  2000.  Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. YaleUniv. [level 3; DS371.2 .R367 2000]

Barnett Rubin: Fragmentation of Afghanistan. [1995- level 3; DS371.2  R8 1995; 2002- level 3; DS341.2 .R8 2002]

Shalinsky, Audrey.  1994.  Long Years of Exile:  Central Asian Refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  New York:  University Press of America.

Nazif Shahrani.  2002 [1979].  The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan:  Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War.  Seattle:  University of Washington.

Nancy Tapper.  1991.  Bartered Brides. [level 3; DS354.58 T37 1991]

Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie.  2004.   Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace.  Zed Books, ISBN: 1-84277-377-1   EAN:  Pages: 256.  $25.00 Retail (Palgrave Macmillan)  LC Call#: DS371.3.J64 2004 
  Synopsis/Annotation: The West has never understood Afghanistan. It has been portrayed variously as an exotic and remote land of warriors in turbans and as a `failed' state requiring our humanitarian assistance. Politically marginal after the withdrawal of Soviet troops, Afghanistan's strategic importance re-emerged after September 11th 2001, when the `war on terror' was launched. Drawing on the experience of a decade and a half of living and working in Afghanistan, Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie examine what the changes of recent years have meant to Afghans themselves and argues that if there is to be a hope of peace and stability, there needs to be a new form of engagement with the country, respecting the rights of Afghans to determine their own political future while recognizing the responsibilities that must follow an intervention in someone else's land.

Monsutti [in French]

Pakistan

Hassan Abbas.  2005.  Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism;  Allah, the Army, and America’s War on Terror.  Armonk, NY: Sharpe. [level 3; DS 384. A27 2005]

Stephen Philip Cohen.  2004.  The Idea of Pakistan.  Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 367 pp. $32.95 [online http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016553.html; level 3; DS376.9 C63 2004]

Owen Bennett Jones.  2003. Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. YaleUniv. [level 3; DS382.J66 2002]

Mary Anne Weaver.  2002.  Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan. NY: Farrar, Straus ISBN 0-374-22894-9 [level 3; DS384. W43 2002

Mukulika Banerjee.  2000.  The Pathan Unarmed:  Opposition & Memory in the North West Frontier.  Santa Fe, NM:  SAR Press.  DS392.N67 B36 2000.

Iran
Mersipassi, Ali.  2000.  Intellectural Discourse and the Politics of Modernization:  Negotiating Modernity in Iran.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University. [online http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/99049057.html; level 3; DS316.6 M57 2000]

Lois Beck:  Nomad: A Year in the Life of a Qashqa’I Tribesman in Iran.

Richard Tapper.  1997.  Frontier nomads of Iran : a political and social history of the Shahsevan.  Cambridge, UK.  DS269 S53 T34 1997.

China’s interests in Central Asia

Alexander Lukin.  2003.  The Bear Watches the Dragon:  Russia’s Perceptiosn of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations Since the Eighteenth Century.  Amounk, NY:  Sharpe. [level 3; DK68.7.C5 L85 2003]

Jeanne L. Wilson.  2004.  Strategic Partners.  Russian-Chinese Relations in the Post-Soviet Era.  Armouk NY;  Sharpe.  [level 3; Dk68.7. C5 W55 2004]

Barnett, A. Doak.  1993  China's far west: Four decades of change.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. [level 2 stacks; HC428 N6 B37 1993]

Saudi Arabia

Schwartz, Stephen. 2002. The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror.New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-50692-9 [N/A]

Robert Baer: Sleeping with the Devil [level 2; HD9576.S33 B34 2003]

Al Qaeda and modern “terrorism”

Understanding Terror Networks  by Marc Sageman. University of Pennsylvania Press (April 1, 2004).  220 pages. ISBN: 0812238087 [level 2; HV6431.324 2004]

Rohan Gunaratna. 2002. Inside Al Qaeda: Global network of terror.ColumbiaUniversity Press. 0231126921 [level 1; poplit NonF HV6431. G853 2002]

Loretta Napoleoni.  2003.  Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars behind the Terror Network.[level 2; HV6431 .N3654 2003]

Maria. A Ressa.  2003.  Seeds of Terror:  An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia.  New York:  Free Press. 
[level 2; HV6433. A7852 Q257 2003]

Richard T. Antoun.  2001.  Understandnig Fundamentalism:  Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.  New York:  Rowman and Littlefield.  [from review by Mike Fischer IJMES 36:342-3, 2004] [level B; BL238.A58 2001]
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websites:
http://www.uga.edu/islam/turkmen.html [article on Turkmenistan]
http://casww.iatp.az/casww/index.html [on Central Asian resources]