Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia
The Tūqāy-Tīmūrid Takeover of Greater Mā Warā al-Nahr, 1598-1605
Biographical note
Thomas Welsford, D.Phil. (2008), is a VolkswagenStiftung Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Together with Alexandre Papas and Thierry Zarcone he has edited Central Asian Pilgrims (Klaus Schwarz, 2011).
Readership
All who are interested in the history of post-Mongol Central Asia, and in the social dynamics of the wider Islamic world.
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