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According to Wikipedia, Shirin Akiner was a scholar of Central Asia and Belarus. She was a research associate at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies . Life Shirin Akiner was born in 1943 in Dacca, British India. She studied at London University, gaining her first degree in Slavonic philology, and Turkish language and literature . She gained her doctorate in 1980 from University College London as a researcher of the heritage of the Belarusian Lipka Tatars, with her dissertation titled "The religious vocabulary of the British Library Tatar-Byelorussian Kitab".

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Between tradition and modernity - the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women (1997) (85)
The Formation of Kazakh Identity: From Tribe to Nation-State (1995) (79)
Tajikistan: Disintegration or Reconciliation? (2001) (67)
Islamic peoples of the Soviet Union (1983) (58)
Melting pot, salad bowl ‐ cauldron? Manipulation and mobilization of ethnic and religious identities in Central Asia (1997) (40)
The Caspian: Politics, Energy and Security (2004) (35)
Resistance and Reform in Tibet (1994) (34)
Tajikistan: The Trials of Independence (1998) (33)
Violence in Andijan, 13 May 2005: An Independent Assessment (2005) (27)
Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development (2014) (26)
The Politicisation of Islam in Postsoviet Central Asia (2003) (25)
Islam, the state and ethnicity in Central Asia in Historical Perspective (1996) (25)
Soviet Central Asia: ‘a tragic experiment’ (1990) (21)
Post‐Soviet Central Asia (1994) (15)
Cultural change and continuity in Central Asia (1991) (11)
Social and Political Reorganisation in Central Asia: Transition from Pre-Colonial to Post-Colonial Society (1998) (11)
Salt Damage to Islamic Monuments in Uzbekistan (1992) (10)
IV. Political Processes in Post-Soviet Central Asia (2003) (10)
Sustainable Development in Central Asia (1998) (8)
Central Asia : Conflict or Stability and Development ? (2006) (8)
Survey of the lexical influence of Russian on modern Uzbek (1870-1990) (1997) (8)
Emerging Political Order in the New Caspian States: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan (2000) (8)
Conflict, Stability and Development in Central Asia (1996) (6)
Towards a Typology of Diasporas in Kazakhstan (2005) (6)
Political and economic trends in Central Asia (1994) (6)
Islamic peoples of the Soviet Union : (with an appendix on the non-Muslim Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union) (1986) (6)
Islam in the Former Soviet Union (2006) (6)
Uzbekistan: Republic of Many Tongues (1990) (5)
SILK ROADS, GREAT GAMES AND CENTRAL ASIA (2011) (5)
The Contestation of Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia. A Nascent Security Threat (2004) (4)
Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey Edited by Feride Acar and Ayşe Güneş‐Ayata (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2000), 376 pp. Price $99.00. ISBN 90–04–11561–7. (2001) (4)
Environmental Security in the Caspian Sea (2004) (3)
Partnership Not Mentorship: Re-appraising the Relationship Between the EU and the Central Asian States (2010) (3)
From the Gulf to Central Asia: players in the new great game (1995) (3)
Emerging Caspian Challenges Ten Years On: Achievements, New Concerns, Future Prospects (2004) (2)
The Kazakhs of China (2009) (2)
Whither Central Asia (1993) (2)
Central Asian Pilgrims: Hajj Routes and Pious Visits between Central Asia and the Hijaz (2013) (2)
Central Asian Republics 1999 (2000) (2)
Evolution Of Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: 1991-2011 /Kazakistan Dis Politikasinin Dönüsümü: 1991-2011/ (2011) (2)
Languages and Scripts of Central Asia (1998) (2)
Religion's Gap (2000) (2)
The shortcomings of the classical economic model: appropriate economic parameters are required for the sustainable development of Central Asia. (1998) (2)
Contemporary Young Byelorussian Poets (1967-1975) (1976) (1)
Customary Strangers: New Perspectives on Peripatetic Peoples in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, (2004) (1)
Development and globalisation: social, psychological and environmental costs. (1998) (1)
Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union Edited by Galina Yemelianova (2011) (1)
Kazakhstan's chairmanship of the Organization for security and cooperation in Europe: an assessment (2011) (1)
History of civilisations of Central Asia, volume VI: towards the contemporary period: from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century (2009) (1)
Ethnicity, Nationality and Citizenship as Expressions of Self-Determination in Central Asia (1996) (1)
Conflict and Post-Conflict Tajikistan: A Case Study (2006) (1)
ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN CENTRAL ASIA: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT (2001) (1)
Religious language of a Belarusian Tatar kitab : a cultural monument of Islam in Europe : with a Latin-script transliteration of the British Library Tatar Belarusian kitab (OR 13020) on CD-ROM (2009) (1)
The Struggle for Civil Society in Central Asia: Crisis and Transformation (2012) (1)
Sustainable Development (2020) (1)
Centre for Documentation and Research (2001) (1)
Classroom and Empire: The Politics of Schooling Russia's Eastern Nationalities, 1860-1917 by Waynes>Dowler (review) (2022) (1)
Conceptual Geographies of Central Asia (2020) (1)
Oil, Islam and Conflict: Central Asia since 1945By Rob Johnson (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Politics of Energy in the Caspian Sea Region 2002 (2001) (0)
United Kingdoms Perspectives on Central Asia (2004) (0)
List of referees for volume 17 (2004) (0)
Amalgamating the Free Market and Traditional Nomadic Society (2020) (0)
Kazakhstan's Hydrocarbon Challenge: (2006) (0)
BYELORUSSIAN STUDIES: LANGUAGE (1983) (0)
Paul Bergne: The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic . xiv, 178 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007. £45. ISBN 978 1 84511 283 7. (2009) (0)
List of contributors (2007) (0)
Alt, T. F. The Language of the Lithuanian Statute of 1529: Orthography, Phonology Inflections. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, 1978. 486 pp. Appendices. (1981) (0)
ACTIVITIES OF THE SOCIETY (2012) (0)
Islam in Central AsiaBy Ludmila Polonskaya and Alexei Malashenko (2010) (0)
Mayo, P. J. A Grammar of Byelorussian. Anglo-Byelorussian Society in association with the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, 1976. 66 pages. Bibliography. (1976) (0)
Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse, Globalising Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development. London and New York: M. E. Sharpe 2013, 355pp. £29.50 (pbk). (2014) (0)
Modernisation, Politics and Islam in the Post-Soviet Central Asian States (2001) (0)
Environmental sustainability, development and planning in Tibet: provisional findings and conclusions. (1998) (0)
Yuri Bregel (ed. and comp.): Bibliography of Islamic Central Asia . 3 vols. (Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Studies, Vol. 160.) lix, 773 pp.; xxxv, 774–1512 pp.; xxix 1513–2276 pp. Bloomington, IN: Reseach Institute for Inner Astian Studies, 1995. $299. (1998) (0)
List of Contributors (2012) (0)
East Asia (1998) (0)
Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan (review) (2002) (0)
The Vocabulary of a Byelorussian K’it’ ab in the British Museum (1973) (0)
Olivier Roy: The New Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Birth of Nations. xxiii, 222 pp. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007. £16.99. ISBN 978 1 84511 552 4. (2009) (0)
Cultural Hybridity in the Religious Literature of the Tatars of North-Eastern Europe (2017) (0)
Central Asia (1998) (0)
Afghan Report (2006) (0)
'Kazakhstan', 'Kyrgystan', 'Tajikstan', 'Turkmenistan', 'Uzbekistan' (2003) (0)
Kazakhstan: History, The Economy (2001) (0)
The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization. By Paul Froese. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+248. $21.95 (paper). (2010) (0)
Central Asian Republics (2003) (0)
Jonathan N. Lipman. Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1997. Pp. xxxvi, 266. $22.50 (2000) (0)
Significance of Silk Roads Today : Proposal for a Historical Atlas (1992) (0)
An Eclectic Literary Monument: The Religious Literature of the Tatars of Belarus, Lithuania and Poland (2015) (0)
Contemporary Byelorussian Literature in Poland (1956-81) (1983) (0)
The Handbook of Central Asia: A Comprehensive Survey of the New Republics By Giampaolo R. Capisani. London: I.B. Tauris. 2000. Pp. xxi, 264. Price HB 45.00. 1-86064-429-5. (2001) (0)
Central Asian Republics 2000 (2001) (0)
Tajikistan in the New Central Asia: Geopolitics, Great Power Rivalry and Radical IslamBy Lena Jonson. (2007) (0)
Allen J. Frank: Turkmen reader . xxxviii, 301 pp. Kensington, MD: Dunwoody Press, 1995. $54. (1998) (0)
CAROLINE HUMPHREY and DAVID SNEATH: The end of nomadism? Society, state and the environment in Inner Asia. ix, 354 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press; Cambridge: White Horse Press, 1999. (2001) (0)
Islam in the Newly Independent Central Asian States in the 1990s (2000) (0)
ROBERT LEGVOLD (ed.) Thinking strategically: the major powers, Kazakhstan, and the Central Asian nexus. (American Academy Studies in Global Security, American Academy of Arts and Science). xii, 243 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2003. £15.95. (2004) (0)
Islam in the Soviet Union: From World War II to Perestroika by Yaacov Ro'i (review) (2022) (0)
Ethnicity and nationality in Central Asia (1994) (0)
The Near and Middle East (1999) (0)
The Temptations of Tyranny in Central AsiaBy David Lewis (2010) (0)
Uzbekistan: the hostile earth of the friendly people (1990) (0)
Political Trends in the New Caspian States: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan (2000) (0)
Table of Contest (2011) (0)
Shoshana Keller. To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign Against Islam in Central Asia, 1917–1941. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2001. Pp. xix, 277. $64.95 (2004) (0)
Dale F. Eickelman (ed.): Russia's Muslim frontiers: new directions in cross-cultural analysis . (Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic Studies.) 206 pp. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. $29.95 (paper $12.95). (1996) (0)
Editorial (2003) (0)
Fostering Fundamentalism: Terrorism, Democracy and American Engagement in Central AsiaBy Matthew Crosston (2007) (0)
Kyrgyzstan 2010-2011: from conflict to fragile stability (2012) (0)
Chinese SE Asia Report (2006) (0)
Reviews of Books:To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign against Islam in Central Asia, 1917-1941 Shoshana Keller (2004) (0)

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