preface And Acknowledgements

pp.：  7 – 8

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

pp.：  9 – 10

GLOSsaRY

pp.：  11 – 16

Maps

pp.：  17 – 18

INTRODUCTION: THE BAYRUK AND THE ACADEMY

pp.：  19 – 36

Casualties of Translation

pp.：  21 – 29

Scope: Sources and Outline of Chapters

pp.：  30 – 36

historY, identity and textuality

pp.：  37 – 80

History: Dynasty, Caravan and Qabila

pp.：  37 – 36

Identity: Primordialist and Discursive Paradigms

pp.：  37 – 36

Textuality: Modern Tribe, Postmodern Qabila

pp.：  37 – 80

ANTIQUE SPACE, upstart QABILA

pp.：  81 – 161

Subaltern Voices: Takna Narratives

pp.：  84 – 87

Lure of Antiquity: Ethnography

pp.：  88 – 100

From Moor to Tribe: Travelogue

pp.：  101 – 117

For Caravan and Sultan: Biographies

pp.：  118 – 121

“Taught by the Pen”: Prelude to Takna?

pp.：  122 – 142

“In the Company of the Sultan”: Suturing

pp.：  143 – 161

A FUTURISTC PAST: ARCHEOLOGY OF THE BAYRUK

pp.：  162 – 228

Colonial Ethnography, Pre-colonial History

pp.：  165 – 168

Speaking for Ancestry: The Bayruk Narrative

pp.：  169 – 176

Tuwat: Space, History and Identity

pp.：  177 – 191

Merits of Silence, Perils of Revelation

pp.：  192 – 218

Becoming Takna: Spatiality and Textuality

pp.：  219 – 228

CARAVAN OF THE BAYRUK

pp.：  229 – 295

In the Shadow of the Caravan

pp.：  231 – 240

Caravan of the Author: Metaphors of Power

pp.：  241 – 255

Rites of “Holy Cause”: Caravan of Slaves

pp.：  256 – 273

Caravan of the Bayruk: Gum and Khunt

pp.：  274 – 295

SPOILS OF WAR, Bounties OF Trade

pp.：  296 – 353

Creatures of the Dynasty

pp.：  299 – 303

Benevolent Displacement: Ubaydallah “the Fugitive”

pp.：  304 – 314

Adjutants of Sultans: Haha Qaid, Susian Trader

pp.：  315 – 321

Avid Trader, Reluctant Warrior: Shaykh Bayruk

pp.：  322 – 327

Passage to Europe: ‘Legitimate’ Trade, Forbidden Markets

pp.：  328 – 339

End of an Era: Wealth in Politics?

pp.：  340 – 353

Conclusion: Casualties of Translation, Fetters of Textuality

pp.：  354 – 364

Bibliography

pp.：  365 – 374

Index

pp.：  375 – 378