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Devin A. DeWeese
Indiana University Bloomington
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 812-855-2298
Fax: 812-855-7500
Indiana University
Central Eurasian Studies
Bloomington IN 47405
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Central Asian Studies
History Of Religion
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
Iran
Former Soviet Union
Specialties
Cen Asian Hist
Sufism & Sufi Orders
Turkic Lang & Lit
Languages
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Persian (advanced)
Russian (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
Uzbek (advanced)
Education
PhD | 1985 | Uralic/Altaic Stds | Indiana U
Abstracts
Hagiographical Rhetoric and the Testimony of Lost Documents: Writing a Sufi Life for a Shrine Saint in Eighteenth-Century K?shghar Sainthood and Sacred Descent in the Generations of a Khw?razmian Family: An Eighteenth-Century Source on the Succession to ?ak?m Ata Local Shrine Guides and Regional Identities in 19th-Century Central Asia: The ‘Description of Khwārazm’ and the Geography of Pilgrimage On his Mother’s Side: Tracing Sanctity and Initiation through Female Ancestors in 18th- and 19th-Century Central Asia