Худжанд: Нури маърифат. 2007. 104 p. The book by the Tajik researcher L. E. Ismoilov examines the peculiarities of religious life in the 16th century. Transoxiana, a region of Central Asia located between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, which covers most of Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, eastern Turkmenistan,and some southern Kazakhstan. 1 The author took the lives of famous Muslim Sufis of the XVI century as the main sources for studying his topic. In the first introductory chapter, L. E. Ismoilov gives a certain idea of the social life of Transoxiana. To a large extent, the content of the chapter is based on the classic source of that era - "Babur-nam" ("Notes of Babur"), the memoirs of Zahir ad-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) - the founder of the Mughal Empire and a direct descendant of Timur (1336-1405). This vivid document of the epoch, of course, deserves the closest attention, and the reader would have the right to expect a thoughtful analysis of Babur-nameh from the author, but L. E. Ismoilov confines himself to giving a relatively small number of examples describing the moral corruption and hypocrisy of Transoxiana society at that time (see, for example, pp. 7-8). However, at the very beginning of the chapter, the author rightly draws attention to 1 Name of Transoxiana (Arabic) - "District", Europe. - Transoxiana-appeared during the Arab conquest of Central Asia in the VII-VIII centuries. and initially spread to the regions along the right bank of the Amu Darya. page 184 the presence of a serious interethnic conflict between the Turkic nomads and the Iranian-speaking inhabitants of Transoxiana. When in 1500-1501. Babur took Samarkand for the second time, and the townspeople began to offer prayers of thanksgiving. "Our people and townspeople were filled with an extraordinary joy and excitement; they killed Uzbeks in the streets with stones and sticks," Babur noted (p.6). The second chapter is devoted to the analysis of the social consciousness of Transoxiana in ... Читать далее