The Heart of Asia / A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times

CONTENTS

PART I
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
CHAP.		PAGE
I.	EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER	3
II.	BACTRIANS AND PARTHIANS	10
III.	THE HUNS AND THE YUÉ-CHI	14
IV.	THE S?S?NIDES, THE EPHTHALITES, AND THE TURKS	22
V.	THE RISE OF ISLAM AND INVASIONS OF THE ARABS	34
VI.	THE FIRST EASTERN CAMPAIGNS OF KUTAYBA IBN MUSLIM	45
VII.	KUTAYBA’S LAST CAMPAIGNS	56
VIII.	KUTAYBA’S FALL AND DEATH	63
IX.	KUTAYBA’S SUCCESSORS	67
X.	NASR IBN SAYY?R AND AB? MUSLIM	77
XI.	KHOR?S?N UNDER THE FIRST ABB?SIDS	84
XII.	THE CALIPHATES OF EL-MANS?R, EL-H?DI, AND H?R?N ER-RASH?D	90
XIII.	DECLINE OF THE CALIPHS’ AUTHORITY IN KHOR?S?N. THE T?HIRIDES	98
XIV.	THE SAFF?RIDES AND THE RISE OF THE S?M?NIDES	103
XV.	THE S?M?NIDES	109
XVI.	THE KARA-KH?NIDES, OR UÏGH?RS	114
XVII.	THE GHAZNAVIDES AND THE RISE OF THE SELJ?KS	123
XVIII.	THE SELJ?KS	129
XIX.	SULTAN SANJAR AND THE KARA-KHIT?YS	136
XX.	THE KHW?RAZM-SH?HS	144
XXI.	CHINGIZ KH?N	149
XXII.	MONGOL INVASION OF CENTRAL ASIA	155
XXIII.	THE LINE OF CHAGHAT?Y	160
XXIV.	T?M?R, THE GREAT AM?R	165
XXV.	THE SUCCESSORS OF T?M?R	173
XXVI.	THE SHAYB?NIDES	182
XXVII.	THE HOUSE OF ASTRAKHAN	194
XXVIII.	THE HOUSE OF MANGIT	204
XXIX.	AM?R NASRULLAH, A BOKH?RAN NERO	211
PART II
RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA
I.	THE MAKING OF RUSSIA	225
II.	CROSSING THE THRESHOLD OF ASIA	238
III.	THE STRUGGLE WITH THE KH?NATES	250
IV.	TURKOMANIA AND THE TURKOMANS	262
V.	THE LAST STEP IN ADVANCE	284
VI.	THE CENTRAL ASIAN RAILWAYS	306
VII.	TRANSCASPIA IN 1898	Clyx.com