Bakhtiyar M. Babadjanov

is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences

Bakhtiyar Babadjanov is senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences. The current publication is the result of a visiting fellowship at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences within the framework of the START Project Seeing Like an Archive: Documents and Forms of Governance in Islamic Central Asia (18–19th Centuries), funded by FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds. The main interests of Bakhtiyar Babadjanov lie in the study of the history of sufism in Central Asia, islamic epigraphy, the history of Islam in the colonial and soviet periods and the history of "Soviet Orientalism in the East".