Historical Studies on Formation and Change of Muslim Communities in Central Asia

我们将一千年来穆斯林社区的历史划分为三个时期：形成期(9-13世纪)、发展期(14-19世纪)和变革期(19世纪及以后)。每个阶段分别由研究组A、B和C进行研究。虽然这些小组的研究活动基本上是相互独立的，但我们一致认为，我们注意从一个时期到另一个时期的过渡期，并考虑到与中亚以外地区的比较。我们也达成了共识，即寻找和使用来自该地区的原始资料对于从内部研究穆斯林社区是不可或缺的。这项研究的主要结果不仅是发展了常见类型的资料，如编年史，而且还发展了迄今未使用的资料，如苏菲派文献，包括圣徒传记和家谱、文献、金石学、报纸、研究报告等。特别是，我们与伊昌-卡拉博物馆、撒马尔罕国家历史、建筑和艺术博物馆以及乌兹别克斯坦共和国费尔干纳地区博物馆合作，成功地将该地区研究机构保存的大量伊斯兰法庭文件数字化、分类和描述。另一个结果是，通过我们基于上述来源的研究，澄清了各个时期社区的具体形象。特别是，毫不夸张地说，基于伊斯兰法庭文件的历史研究只是通过我们的研究项目才真正启动的。此外，通过每年3月在京都外国语大学举办的四次中亚外交官研究研讨会，我们通过这次研究获得的知识和技能被日本研究人员分享。

We divided one thousand years of the history of Muslim community into the following three periods : the formative period (9-13 centuries), the developmental period (14-19 centuries) and the changing period (19 century and later). Each period was studied by research groups a, b and c respectively. Although the research activities of the groups are primarily independent to each other, we had consensus that we pay attention to the shifting periods from one period to the other and take into consideration the comparison with areas other than Central Asia. We had also consensus that finding and using of primary sources form the very area are indispensable for studying Muslim communities "from the inside".The primary result of this study is the development of not only common kinds of sources such as chronicles but also so far unused sources such as Sufi literatures including hagiographies and genealogies, documents, epigraphy, newspapers, research reports, and so on. Especially, we successfully put on track the process of digitalization, classification and description of the vast amount of Islamic court document preserved in research institutes of the area in collaboration with the Ichan-Qala Museum, the Samarqand National Museum of History, Architecture and Art, and Ferghana Regional Museum, the Republic of Uzbekistan.Another result is that concrete images of the communities of the each period were clarified through our studies based on the above mentioned sources. Especially, it is no exaggeration to say that historical studies based on Islamic court documents were launched in earnest only through our research project. In addition, our knowledge and skill gained through this study were shared among Japanese researchers through "research seminar on Central Asian diplomatics" held four times in Kyoto University of Foreign Studies every March.