Staff - 3rd phase of Research

Dr. Wolfgang Holzwarth

Main fields of research:

History, society and culture of Central Asia and Northern South Asia since the early modern period • Memory and Oblivion • Field studies in Afghanistan and Pakistan • Research in repositories of Oriental manuscripts in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan • Manuscripts and lithographs in regional literary languages (Persian, Turki, Urdu, Pashtu)

Since 2001 researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University Halle-Wittenberg within the frame of the Collaborative Research Centre "Difference and Integration". • 1997–2000 teaching position at the School of Central Asian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin. • 1993–1997 research associate at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Chair of Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg • 1987–1988 research associate at the Institute of Protestant Theology-History of Religions, Free University Berlin • 1987 PhD (Free University Berlin) •1982–1984 teaching position at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin • studied Social Anthropology, Iranian Studies and Political Science in Berlin.

Selected Publications:

The Uzbek State as Reflected in Eighteenth Century Bukharan Sources, in: Asiatische Studien (Bern) 60,2 (2006) 321-353.

Relations between Uzbek Central Asia, the Great Steppe and Iran, 1700–1750. In: S. Leder/B. Streck (ed.): Shifts and Drifts in Nomad-Sedentary Relations. Wiesbaden. Im Druck.

Sources of Gilgit, Hunza and Nager History (1500–1800) and Notes on the Oral Roots of Local Historiography. In: H. Kreutzmann (ed.): Karakorum in Transition. Karachi/Oxford. Im Druck.

Nomaden und Seßhafte in turkî-Quellen (narrative Quellen aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert). In: Mitteilungen des SFB "Differenz und Integration" 2, OWH 4 (2002), 147–165.

Change in Pre-Colonial Times. An Evaluation of Sources on the Karakorum and Eastern Hindukush Regions (from 1500 to 1800). In: I. Stellrecht (ed.): Karakorum-Hindukush–Himalaya: Dynamics of Change. Köln 1998, 297–337.

Die Ismailiten in Nordpakistan. Zur Entwicklung einer religiösen Minderheit im Kontext neuer Außenbeziehungen. Berlin 1994 (Ethnizität und Gesellschaft. Occasional Papers 21).