CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE BUKHARA EMIRATE: THE SURKHAN–SHEROBOD REGION FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Abstract

This article examines the cultural and spiritual life of the Surkhan–Sherobod region within the Bukhara Emirate from the eighteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century. The study explores the region’s position within the political and administrative system of the Bukhara Emirate, its religious and educational environment, the activities of traditional schools and madrasas, the role of local Islamic scholars and religious teachers in society, architectural monuments, oral folk traditions, traditional culture, and the socio-cultural transformations that occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.