Historian Giorgio Rota on Who the Safavids Were and Why They Fought the Ottomans
Historian Konuralp Ercilasun on the Turkish War of Independence and the influence of Turkic intellectuals
Historian Richard Foltz on the alliance that built the Silk Road — and was somehow forgotten
Historian Aibolat Kushkumbaev on the military stratagems of the Ulus of Jochi
Ethnographer Dosymbek Qatyran on ancient greetings and forgotten rituals
Timothy May on Chinggis Khan, Warfare, and the Limits of Conquest
Daniel Scarborough on Orthodoxy, Islam, and Imperial Power in Turkestan
Historian Marat Absemetov on the Difficult Fate of Mirjaqyp Dulatuly
Peter B. Golden on Etymology, Identity, and Power in the Early Turkic world
Guess what this thing was used for.
Linguist Timur Kozyrev on the real origins of the Kazakh language and the false myths surrounding it.
An interview with Sarah Cameron, author of the book “The Hungry Steppe”
How Imperial Russia’s failure to understand the ways of Kazakh life exposed the cracks in its own power
