Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in... Book

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	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
1	The Religious Environment: Worldview, Ritual, and Communal Status	17
	Islam and Conversion	17
	Indigenous Religion in Traditional Inner Asia	27
	Islamization in Inner Asia	51
2	The Historical Setting: Baba Tukles and the Conversion of Ozbek Khan	67
	Islamic Antecedents in Western Inner Asia	72
	The Conversion of Ozbek Khan	90
	The Conversion of Ozbek Khan in the Account of Otemish Hajji	142
3	Conversion Narrative and Religious Meaning, I: The Setting	159
	Story, History, and Religious Meaning in Conversion Narrative	160
	Debate and Contest	167
	Ritual Intrusion and Displacement	179
4	Conversion Narrative and Religious Meaning, II: The Drama	231
	Baba Tukles and Shamanic Narrative	232
	The Oven-Pit: Ordeal, Sacrifice, and Sacred Enclosure in Forging a Community	243
	Displacement and Assimilation	290
5	Baba Tukles in History and Genealogy	321
	The Hero of the Conversion Narrative: Baba Tukles	323
	Edigu and the Noghay Horde	336
	Reworking the Account of Otemish Hajji: Abd al-Ghaffar Qirimi in the Eighteenth Century	352
	Making Sense of Diverse Traditions: A New Account from Khorezm in the Eighteenth Century	366
	Baba Tukles and the Full Genealogy of Edigu: Tatar Historiography, Bukharan Hagiography, and Russian Heraldry	381
6	Baba Tukles in Epic Tradition and Folklore	409
	The Epic Tale of Idige	411
	Baba Tukles' Role in the Tale of Idige	420
	Baba Tukles and the "Noghay Epic"	435
	Baba Tukles as a "Nativized" Bringer of Islam	442
7	Baba Tukles and the Uses of Sacred Origins	491
	Baba Tukles and Legends of Origin: Parallel Structures and Themes	492
	The Mythic and Narrative Development of Baba Tukles: Reconstructions and Parallels	506
	Religion and the Articulation of Communal Identity in Islamic Inner Asia	516
	Appendix 1 Otemish Hajji's Account of the Conversion of Ozbek Khan: Text	533
	Appendix 2 Otemish Hajji's Account: Translation and Commentary	541
	Appendix 3 An Eighteenth-Century Khorezmian Account of the Conversion of Ozbek Khan: Text	567
	Bibliography	575
	Index	617