Researcher Project D5

E-mail

wolfgang.holzwarth@orientphil.uni-halle.de

Address

Orientalisches Institut
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Mühlweg 15
D-06114 Halle/ Saale
Germany

Tel. +49 345 / 55 24087
Fax +49 345 / 55 27123

 

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:

“Conditions of Pastoral Mobility in Precolonial and Colonial Southern and Eastern Bukhara“ (A contribution to a reader on “Mobility and Territoriality”, edited by Anatoly Khazanov and Günther Schlee) (in progress).

“Bukharan Armies and Uzbek Military Power, c 1670-1870: Coping with the legacy of a nomadic conquest”. In: Franz, Kurt; Wolfgang Holzwarth (eds.), Nomadic Military Power: Iran and adjacent areas  in the Islamic period. Wiesbaden: Reichert. (forthcoming)

“Community Elders and State Agents:  Ilbegis in the Emirate of Bukhara around 1900”. In: Eurasian Studies IX/1-2 (2011), pp. 213-262.

„Hujjathoi boygonii Amorati Buchoro oid ba holati  chorvodori  dar Khatlonzamin“ [Archival documents of the Emirate of Bukhara on animal husbandry in Khatlon]. In: Sattori, I.T.; N.M. Asoev et al. (eds.), Mamjmui ma"ruzaho dar konferensiyai baynalmilalii ilmi-amali  zeri unvoni „Ma"salahoi sohai  chorvodori  dar  jumhurii Tojikiston dar misoli viloyati Khatlon: ta"rikh va muoshirat", Danghara, 26-29 noyabri soli 2010. Danghara & Dushanbe 2011, pp. 25-32.

„Baumwollplantagen im Weideland: Mittelasiatische Nomaden und russische Neusiedler in der Hungersteppe (1868-1917)“. In: Geographische Rundschau Juli–August 7–8 2011, pp. 63-65.

„Mittelasiatische Schafe und russische Eisenbahnen: Raumgreifende eurasische Lammfell- und Fleischmärkte in der Kolonialzeit“. In: Calkins, Sandra; Jörg Gertel (eds.), Nomaden in unserer Welt. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag [2011] 2012, pp. 88-97.

Stichworte „Amulett" (with Annegret Nippa), „Karakulschaf" (mit Annegret Nippa) und „Usbeken". In: Nippa, Annegret (ed.), Kleines abc des Nomadismus. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde. 2011, pp. 18-20, 112-113, 234.

(with Franziska Frank) „Nicht ohne meinen Persianer-Mantel ...". In:  Scientia Hallensis I/2011, p. 33.

„Der persische Feenprinz besiegt den Kannibalenkönig von Gilgit: Ein Kapitel aus der Kulturgeschichte Nordpakistans“,  in: Hoffmann, B.; R. Kauz; M. Ritter (eds.), Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen. Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner. Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 169–181.

“Availing of Nomadic Military Power – Stratagems and Pitfalls: Iran and adjacent areas in the Islamic period”. Conference report (with Kurt Franz) on a workshop in Halle (Saale), 21-23 February 2008. Online publication http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=2193

Urunbaev, A.; G. Džuraeva; S. Gulomov. Katalog sredneaziatskich žalovannych gramot iz fonda Instituta vostokovodenija im. Abu Rajchana Beruni Akademii nauk Respubliki Uzbekistan. (= Mitteilungen des SFB; 10), hrsg. im Auftrag des SFB von Wolfgang Holzwarth).

“The Uzbek State as Reflected in Eighteenth Century Bukharan Sources”. In: Asiatische Studien (Bern) 60/2, pp. 321-353.

“Sources of Gilgit, Hunza and Nager History (1500-1800) and Comments on the Oral Roots of Local Historiography”. In: H. Kreutzmann (ed.), Karakoram in Transition. Oxford; Karachi 2006, pp. 171-190.

“Relations between Uzbek Central Asia, the Great Steppe and Iran, 1700-1750”. In: S. Leder; B. Streck (eds.): Shifts and Drifts in Nomad-Sedentary Relations. Wiesbaden, pp. 179-216.

“Ura-Tepe”. In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Supplement volume, fascicle 11-12, pp. 819-820.

“The Uzbek State as Reflected in Eighteenth Century Bukharan Sources”. In: Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte 15 (2004): Mitteilungen des SFB „Differenz und Integration“ 4/2. Halle/Saale, pp. 93-129.

(with Thomas Herzog): editor of the volumes Mitteilungen des SFB „Differenz und Integration: Nomaden und Sesshafte – Fragen, Methoden, Ergebnisse 4/1 (2003) and 4/2 (2004).

„Nomaden und Seßhafte in turki-Quellen (narrative Quellen aus dem frühen 16. Jahrhundert)“. In: Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte 4/2002, pp. 147-165.