The Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies (Uzbek: Toshkent davlat sharqshunoslik instituti) is a state institution of higher education in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.[1] Founded in November 1918,[2] the school is the only Oriental-studies institute in Central Asia and Asia's oldest Oriental institute of higher education.[3] It is one of the largest schools of its kind in Asia and the former Soviet Union.
Third-year students were taught specialized subjects, including Turkestan languages, Iranian and Arab philology, and Islamic studies. The institute prepared language and history teachers for local schools. It had 5,300 books and over 200 manuscripts by 1922. The first dean of the Oriental faculty was A. Y. Shmidt.
It was attached to the National University of Uzbekistan in accordance with Resolution No. 186 of the Cabinet Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan in July 1991, and was named on the basis of a 26 July 1991 resolution by the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education.
The faculty was founded for Oriental philology and history by rector orders K/05-36 (24 August 2000) and 01-142 (30 June 2011). It was renamed as the faculty of Oriental philology by rector order 01-243 on 20 September 2014.
Among Oriental-philology graduates are academicians A. Rustamov and U. Karimov, government-prize winners I. Abdullayev, S. G’aniyeva, A. Hayitmetov and P. Qodirov, international-prize winners Q. Mahmudov, Sh. Shomuhamedov and E. Rustamov, and ambassadors S. Mirqosimov, F. Teshaboyev, A. Shayhov, S. Inog’omov and A. Usmonov.[4]
The faculty of history and philosophy has five departments (chairs). It had nine professors, 12 doctors of sciences, 16 science candidates and 27 senior lecturers and teachers during the 2018-2019 academic year.[7]
Chairs:
Eastern history and contemporary issues
Central Asian history and source studies
Oriental philosophy and culture
Social sciences
Western European languages
Foreign economics and policy
The faculty, founded in 2008, has undergone several name changes. It was created to train Oriental economists and politicians to investigate and analyze problems, social and economic development, security, and military-technical development of the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.[8]
Central Asia is a region of Asia bounded by the Caspian Sea to the southwest, European Russia to the northwest, Western China and Mongolia to the east, Afghanistan and Iran to the south, and Siberia to the north. It includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan" in both respective native languages and most other languages.
The Uzbeks are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, being among the largest Turkic ethnic groups in the area. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, next to Kazakh and Karakalpak minorities, and also form minority groups in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia, and China. Uzbek diaspora communities also exist in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United States, Ukraine, Pakistan, and other countries.
Tashkent, or Toshkent in Uzbek, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1st 2024. It is located in northeastern Uzbekistan, near the border with Kazakhstan.
Inner Asia refers to the northern and landlocked regions spanning North, Central and East Asia. It includes parts of western and northeast China, as well as southern Siberia. The area overlaps with some definitions of "Central Asia", mostly the historical ones, but certain regions that are often included in Inner Asia, such as Manchuria, are not a part of Central Asia by any of its definitions. Inner Asia may be regarded as the western and northern "frontier" of China proper and as being bounded by East Asia proper, which consists of China proper, Japan and Korea.
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakh: Әл-Фараби атындағы Қазақ ұлттық университеті), also called KazNU or KazGU, is a national research university located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Named after philosopher and scholar al-Farabi, it is one of the country's largest universities.
Soviet Central Asia was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence. It is nearly synonymous with Russian Turkestan in the Russian Empire. Soviet Central Asia went through many territorial divisions before the current borders were created in the 1920s and 1930s.
Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL) is a public higher educational institution. It is one of the leading Uzbek legal research centers, located in the capital city of Tashkent.
The Osh State University is a public university in Osh, the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan. The university was originally established by the Kirghiz SSR in 1939 as a teacher training institute and was upgraded to a comprehensive pedagogical institute in 1951. The institute was awarded full university status in 1992 in the immediate aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Tashkent State University of Economics is one of the largest business schools in Central Asia. It was formerly known as the Tashkent Institute of Economics.
The Kyrgyz National University, named after renowned Maturidi poet Jusup Balasagyn, is a national university in Kyrgyzstan.
National University of Uzbekistan is a public research university located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. NUUz is the oldest and largest university in Uzbekistan.
The Syr-Darya Oblast was one of the oblasts of the Russian Empire, a part of Russian Turkestan. Its center was Tashkent.
Turkestan Album is a unique publication dedicated to the history, ethnography, geography, economy and culture of Central Asia before 1917, which contains over 1,200 rare photographs. The album was released in 1872 by order of the first Governor-General of Russian Turkestan, Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman, and is designed to acquaint Russian and western researchers with Turkestan region. At present, a complete set of volumes and parts of the book is stored only in the National Library of Uzbekistan, the Russian State Library and the Library of Congress.
The Tashkent Automobile and Road Construction Institute was established in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to meet the high demands for professionals in the transportation and automobile fields.
Uzbekistan State World Languages University is a public university located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The university was established via merging two language universities by Islam Karimov in 1992.
Majid Qodiri (Kadyrov) ('Abd-ul-Majid-khan, son of 'Abd-ul-Qodir-khan (Kadyrov) (Uzbek: Abdul-Majidxon Qori Abdul-Qodirxon Qori o'g'li), (Uzbek: Majid Qodiriy,Мажид Қодирий) (Arabic: مجید قَارِئ قادری),(May 2, 1886, Qori-Yoghdi Mahalla, Sheyhantahur daha, Tashkent — October 4, 1938, Tashkent) was an Uzbek literary scholar, public figure, and publicist who was the author of the first Uzbek tutorials and textbooks of literature, history, and arithmethi. He was one of the founders of Jadidism in Turkestan.
The Katagans are a medieval Mongol tribe related to Genghis Khan. In the period of Mongol conquest and assimilation with enslaved by Turkic tribes played its role in the ethnogenesis of modern Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Uzbeks, Buryats, Uyghurs, and others.
Mikhail Stepanovich Andreyev was a Russian-Uzbek and Soviet orientalist, cultural researcher of Central Asia, ethnographer, linguist, and archaeologist. He was initially supervised by Vladimir Nalivkin, and was the teacher of Olga Alexandrovna Sukhareva. He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Afghan Turkmens or Turkmens of Afghanistan live in the north-west of Afghanistan along the border with Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, surrounded by a larger group of Afghan Uzbeks. The number of Turkmens in Afghanistan is estimated at 1 million people or roughly 2-3% of the population of Afghanistan.
Shuhrat Sirojiddinov is a Doctor of Philology, professor, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan — academician. He has been the Rector of Alisher Navo’i Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature since 2016.
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