Shirin Akiner

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Shirin Akiner Mitchell
Born(1943-06-16)16 June 1943
School of Oriental and African Studies
Main interestsCentral Asia and Belarus
Notable worksReligious Language of a Belarusian Tatar Kitab: A Cultural Monument of Islam in Europe

Shirin Akiner (16 June 1943 – 6 April 2019) was a scholar of Central Asia and

School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS).

Life

Shirin Akiner was born in 1943 in

Lipka Tatars, with her dissertation titled "The religious vocabulary of the British Library Tatar-Byelorussian Kitab".[1]

Her first husband was killed in a car crash just before the birth of their son Metin.[2][3] In 1973, she re-married.[2]

Akiner produced many scholarly works, particularly on

U.S.A.K., and a chair of the British-Uzbek Society.[4]

She was also a researcher of modern

Journal of Belarusian Studies and maintained active contacts with the Belarusian community in Britain, including Alexander Nadson.[5] In 1984, she published a book of English translations of miniature works by the Belarusian writer from Poland Sokrat Janowicz.[5]

In 2005, human rights groups,

SOAS
, to take action against Akiner for allegedly promoting falsehoods, but the latter refused on the grounds that Murray's views were "unsubstantiated".

Akiner died on 6 April 2019.[7]

Selected publications

  • Religious Language of a Belarusian Tatar Kitab: A Cultural Monument of Islam in Europe, 457 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009
  • Violence in Andijan, 13 May 2005: An Independent Assessment, 51pp. Johns Hopkins University, Uppsala University (Sweden), 2005.
    ISBN 91-85031-08-9
    .
  • The Caspian: Politics, Energy, Security, 405pp. RoutledgeCurzon (UK), 2004.
    ISBN 0-7007-0501-5
    .
  • Tajikistan: Disintegration or Reconciliation?, 95pp. Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), 2001.
    ISBN 1-86203-061-8
    .
  • The Formation of Kazakh Identity; from Tribe to Nation-State, 83pp. Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995.
    ISBN 1-899658-03-3
    .
  • Resistance and Reform in Tibet edited by Robert Barnett and Shirin Akiner : C.Hurst 1994, Indiana University Press.

References

  1. ^ Akiner, S. (1980). The religious vocabulary of the British Library Tatar-Byelorussian Kitab (Ph.D).
  2. ^ a b Arnold McMillin. Shirin Akiner (1942-2019) – in Memoriam - Anglo-Belarusian Society, 18 April 2019
  3. ^ "Fragments from a vanished world | Cyprus Mail". Cyprus Mail. 5 June 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  4. ^ In Memoriam – Dr Shirin Akiner (16 June 1942–6 April 2019) - British-Uzbek Society official website
  5. ^
    Radio Svaboda
    , 18 April 2019
  6. ^ Ali, Fuad (15–21 December 2006). "Murray attacks SOAS lecturer over Karimov". The Muslim Weekly. Retrieved 18 December 2006.
  7. ^ Источники в Узбекистане сообщили о смерти лондонского профессора Ширин Акинер [Sources in Uzbekistan report about the death of London professor Shirin Akiner] - Fergana News, 7 April 2019

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