Devin Deweese

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Devin Deweese is a professor of History and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
He received his PhD in 1985 at Indiana University, and since then has continued to do research on Central Asian Islam, particularly Sufism and its political and social dimensions. He has published major studies of Central Asian religion and history using Persian, Arabic and Turkic manuscript sources he has painstakingly accumulated from collections all over the world. He directs the unique library and microfilm collection at the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies at Indiana University. In 2003 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2006 was named a Carnegie Scholar.

His work is unique among North American scholars because of his precise analysis of manuscript sources to understand the motivations of the authors of these texts. His approach to his sources allows him to understand the cultural contexts in which the many complex manuscript traditions have been created.

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  • "Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition." (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994 Series "Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions"), 638 pp.
  • "Khojagani Origins and the Critique of Sufism: The Rehtoric of Communal Uniqueness in the Manaqib of Khoja 'Ali 'Azizan Ramitani," in Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics, ed. Frederick De Jong and Bernd Radtke (Leiden: E.J. Brell, 1999) 492-519.
  • "The Masha'ikh-i Turk and the Khojagan: Rethinking the Links between the Uasavi and Naqshbandi Sufi Traditions," Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), 7/2 (July 1996), 180-207.
  • "The Tadhkira-i Bughra-khan and the "Uvaysi" Sufis of Central Asia: Notes in Review of Imaginary Muslims," Central Asiatic Journal, 40 (1996), 87-127.
  • "The Descendants of Sayyid Ata and the Rank of Naqib in Central Asia," Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115 (1995), 612-634.
  • Sacred Places and 'Public' Narratives: The Shrine of Ahmad Yasavi in Hagiographical Traditions of the Yasavi Sufi Order, 16th-17th Centuries., Muslim World, Fall 2000, Vol. 90, Issue 3/4
  • "Baba Kamal and Jandi and the Kubravi Tradition among the Turks of Central Asia," Der Islam, 71 (1994), 58-94.
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