Scholarship in 19^th Century Khiva and Neighboring Khanates

Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara
Freie Universität Berlin

35^th Meeting of the PIAC, Taipei 1992

The paper will attempt to give an outline of scholarly life in 19^th century Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand on the basis of indigenous sources and European travel reports. The learned hierarchy, the educational system and the topics studied by scholars will be presented and a comparison will be drawn with the Ottoman Empire.