Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Business Profile - 2007

Google E-Book here

We found this interesting document online.  It's from 2007, but still worth a look.

Turks of Central Asia - Czaplicka


The Turks of Central Asia in History and at the Present Day
Marie Antoinette Czaplicka
Oxford / Clarendon 1918 
ISBN 1113487607



Here is a google snippet view of the above text.

Monday, December 3, 2012

For Prophet and Czar

For Prophet and Tsar
Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
Robert D. Crews 2006
Harvard University Press

ISBN - 0674-02164-9

Islamic Historigraphy and "Bulghar" Identity

This is on the stack next to the bed at the moment... 

Islamic Historiography and "Bulghar" Identity among the Tatars and Bashkirs of Russia
Allen J. Frank , Brill 1998
ISBN 90-0411021-6
ISSN 1385-3376



Sunday, December 2, 2012

мәтрүшкә - душица - marjoram - mәtrüşkә

 Feride and Alsu sing a song about Metrushkeler (mәtrüşkәlәr) and I asked Eni' "What's that?" She says "I think a name of a flower."  Turns out that it means "Marjoram" or "Wild Marjoram".