Historical Study on Identify and Islam in Central Asia

本研究旨在通过文献记载和田野调查，获取基础性的研究资料，考察中亚地区从近代到现代民族身份变迁的历史过程。在乌兹别克斯坦，我们调查了前现代时期乌兹别克伊斯兰社会的文献，并积累了俄罗斯统治时期的档案材料。在哈萨克斯坦，我们不仅利用文献资料考察了18 - 19世纪哈萨克族的政治状况，还对维吾尔族社会进行了实地考察，了解了维吾尔族的教育和文化状况，并从维吾尔族报纸中获得了世纪上半叶的历史资料。本文对伊斯兰教在当前齐孜族农村社会中的实际情况进行了实地调查。在中国新疆维吾尔自治区，我们试图收集有关20世纪世纪维吾尔社会的基本史料，并对维吾尔精英和知识分子就其民族身份、文化状况和民族政策等问题进行访谈，为分析20世纪维吾尔社会文化的历史变迁过程积累了大量的基础资料，从前现代到当代中亚民族的心态和活动。特别是，我们可以揭示民族认同和教育活动之间的关系，在哈萨克斯坦和中国的维吾尔族。

This study aims to examine historical process of the changes of identities of the ethnic groups in Central Asia from pre-modern period to present time through getting the fundamental research data by using documentary records and doing field work.Practically we were engaged in the research activities in Central Asia as follows. In Uzbekistan we investigated documents on Islamic society of the Uzbeks in pre-modern period, and accumulated archival materials in the period under the Russian rule. In Kazakhstan we not only used documents to examine the political situation of the Kazakhs in 18 - 19th centuries, but also were engaged in the fieldwork in the Uyghur society to understand educational and cultural situations and got the historical data particularly in the first half of the 20th century from Uyghur newspaper. In Qirghizstan field survey was conducted on the actual condition of Islam in the present Qizghiz rural society. In Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China we tried to collect the fundamental historical materials about the Uyghur society in the 20th century and had interview with the Uyghur elites and intelligentsia on their ethnic identity, cultural situation and national policy.By such a research a lot of fundamental data were accumulated to analyze the process of historical changes of society and culture, mentality and activities of ethnic groups in Central Asia from premodem period to present time. In particular we could throw light on the relationship between ethnic identity and educational activities of the Uyghurs in Kazakhstan and China.