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Central Asia Books
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 148 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,422 ratings — published 1990
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,174 ratings — published 2014
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,366 ratings — published 2015
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,312 ratings — published 2013
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,836 ratings — published 2004
Jamilia (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,913 ratings — published 1958
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,583 ratings — published 1980
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,373 ratings — published 2008
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,579,989 ratings — published 2003
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,788 ratings — published 1980
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.27 — 449 ratings — published
The Lost Heart of Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,658 ratings — published 1994
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.59 — 839 ratings — published 2009
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.10 — 366 ratings — published 1939
Shadow of the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,527 ratings — published 2007
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,886 ratings — published 2000
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,078 ratings — published 1984
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,795,982 ratings — published 2007
Inside Central Asia: A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.63 — 356 ratings — published 2009
The Silk Road: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.76 — 890 ratings — published 2012
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.79 — 393 ratings — published 2019
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,509 ratings — published 2004
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.08 — 895 ratings — published 2010
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,856 ratings — published 2010
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,226 ratings — published 2013
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,315 ratings — published 2006
The Road to Oxiana (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,465 ratings — published 1937
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,648 ratings — published 2007
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.75 — 554 ratings — published 2002
Central Asia in World History (New Oxford World History)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.66 — 237 ratings — published 2010
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.87 — 722 ratings — published 1999
Samarkand (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,594 ratings — published 1988
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.71 — 290 ratings — published 2017
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.08 — 215 ratings — published 2006
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (Vintage Departures)
by (shelved 28 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.86 — 725 ratings — published 2003
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.89 — 991 ratings — published 2004
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,385 ratings — published 2004
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.77 — 58,114 ratings — published 2002
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,128 ratings — published 2007
The Devils' Dance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.98 — 321 ratings — published 2012
Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.28 — 792 ratings — published 1994
The Railway (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.23 — 266 ratings — published 2006
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.14 — 258 ratings — published 2005
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.99 — 139 ratings — published 2006
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,175 ratings — published 2021
Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.11 — 260 ratings — published 2013
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,363 ratings — published 1982
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as central-asia)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,175 ratings — published 1958
Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.33 — 67 ratings — published 2015
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as central-asia)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,093 ratings — published 2013
“Russian authorities distinguished between steppe Islam, suffused, they believed, with Shamanism, and the Islam of the Uzbek cities, which they considered hotbeds of fanaticism. Catherine viewed Islam as a "civilizing" tool that would first make Kazakhs good Muslims, then good citizens, eventually good Christians. She used Tatar teachers, her subjects, who could travel among the nomads and speak their language, to preach a more "correct" Islam. The Tatars became an important factor in implanting in the steppe an Islam that adhered more closely to traditional Muslim practices.”
― Central Asia in World History
― Central Asia in World History
“According to a medival Turkic saying, "a Turk is never without a Persian [Tat, a sedentary Iranian], just as a cap is never without a head." The relationship was mutually beneficial.”
― Central Asia in World History
― Central Asia in World History
