CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART I FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
CHAPTER I Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander
CHAPTER II Bactrians and Parthians
CHAPTER III The Huns and the YuE-Chi
CHAPTER IV The S?s?nides, the Ephthalites, and the Turks
CHAPTER V The Rise of Isl?m and Invasions of the Arabs
CHAPTER VI The First Eastern Campaigns of Kutayba ibn Muslim
CHAPTER VII Kutayba's Last Campaigns
CHAPTER VIII Kutayba's Fall and Death
CHAPTER IX Kutayba's Successors
CHAPTER X Nasr ibn Sayy?r and Ab? Muslim
CHAPTER XI Khor?s?n under the First `Abb?sids
CHAPTER XII The Caliphates of El-Mans?r, El-H?di, and H?r?n er-Rash?d
CHAPTER XIII Decline of the Caliphs' Authority in Khor?s?n. The T?hirides
CHAPTER XIV The Saff?rides and the Rise of the S?m?nides
CHAPTER XV The S?m?nides
CHAPTER XVI The Kara-Kh?nides, or UIgh?rs
CHAPTER XVII The Ghaznavides and the Rise of the Selj?ks
CHAPTER XVIII The Selj?ks
CHAPTER XIX Sultan Sanjar and the Kara-Khit?ys
CHAPTER XX The Khw?razm-sh?hs
CHAPTER XXI Chingiz Kh?n
CHAPTER XXII Mongol Invasion of Central Asia
CHAPTER XXIII The Line of Chaghat?y
CHAPTER XXIV T?m?r, the Great Am?r
CHAPTER XXV The Successors of T?m?r
CHAPTER XXVI THE SHAYB?NIDES
CHAPTER XXVII The House of Astrakhan
CHAPTER XXVIII The House of Mangit
CHAPTER XXIX Am?r Nasrullah, a Bokh?ran Nero
PART II RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA
CHAPTER I The Making of Russia
CHAPTER II Crossing the Threshold of Asia
CHAPTER III The Struggle with the Kh?nates
CHAPTER IV Turkomania and the Turkomans
CHAPTER V The Last Step in Advance
CHAPTER VI The Central Asian Railways
CHAPTER VII Transcaspia in 1898
CHAPTER VIII Askabad and Merv
CHAPTER IX Bokh?r?, a Protected Native State
CHAPTER X SAMARKAND
CHAPTER XI Friends or Foes?
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
Transcriber's Notes
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GŪR AMĪR, THE MAUSOLEUM OF TAMERLANE
THE HEART OF ASIA
A History of Russian Turkestan
and the Central Asian Khanates
from the Earliest Times
BY
FRANCIS HENRY SKRINE
FORMERLY A MEMBER OF H.M. INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE
AND
EDWARD DENISON ROSS, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR OF PERSIAN AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
WITH 19 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SKETCHES BY VERESTCHAGIN
NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS AND 2 MAPS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET, W.C.
LONDON
1899
