Turkmen Literacy and Turkmen Identity before the Soviets: the Ravnaq al-Islām in Its Literary and Social Context
Autor: | Allen J. Frank |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 63:286-315 |
ISSN: | 1568-5209 |
DOI: | 10.1163/15685209-12341511 |
Popis: | Despite assertions of almost universal illiteracy among pre-Revolutionary Turkmens, an examination of the widely popular maktab primer, the Ravnaq al-Islām, shows that literacy among Turkmens before 1917 was substantially higher than previously thought. Additionally, the work and legends surrounding it show us Turkmen maktab texts contributed to a sense of supra-tribal Turkmen identity, which has generally been discounted or ignored in previous studies of Turkmen social history. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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