Module Five: History and Religion
This module includes topics related to major topics of history of Uzbekistan. Learners will read legends about Temurid princesses and learn historical-religious terminology.
Target Standards
Communication: Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions. Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Cultures: Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connections: Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Comparisons: Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own. Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Communities: Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
Cultures: Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connections: Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Comparisons: Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own. Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Communities: Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
Set Goals and Objectives
Aynur is a historian. She studies at Indiana University. Aynur is doing research on the history of Central Asia in XII-XV centuries.
Tomas is doing research on religious studies. He is writing a book about sacred places in Central Asia and Pakistan. Tomas wants to become familiar with the religious literature in Uzbek. They both want to learn more about the following topics:
Tomas is doing research on religious studies. He is writing a book about sacred places in Central Asia and Pakistan. Tomas wants to become familiar with the religious literature in Uzbek. They both want to learn more about the following topics:
- Historical Places in Uzbekistan
- History of Tashkent
- Islamic Traditions
- Timurid Princesses
- History of Baburids
Expand Your Knowledge
Sela, Ron. The Legendary Biographies of Tamerlane: Islam and Heroic Apocrypha in Central Asia. Cambridge University Press (April, 2011).
Sela, Ron. Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). Co-authored with Scott C. Levi.
Sela, Ron. Ritual and Authority in Central Asia: The Khan's Inauguration Ceremony. Papers on Inner Asia no. 37 (Bloomington: RIFIAS, 2003), 79 pp.
Sela, Ron. “Invoking the Russian Conquest of Khiva and the Massacre of the Yomut Turkmens: The Choices of a Central Asian Historian," Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques LX:2 (2006), pp. 459-477.
Sela, Ron. “The Heavenly Stone' (Kök Tash) of Samarqand: A Rebels' Narrative Transformed," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17/1 (January 2007), pp. 21-32.
Sela, Ron. Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). Co-authored with Scott C. Levi.
Sela, Ron. Ritual and Authority in Central Asia: The Khan's Inauguration Ceremony. Papers on Inner Asia no. 37 (Bloomington: RIFIAS, 2003), 79 pp.
Sela, Ron. “Invoking the Russian Conquest of Khiva and the Massacre of the Yomut Turkmens: The Choices of a Central Asian Historian," Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques LX:2 (2006), pp. 459-477.
Sela, Ron. “The Heavenly Stone' (Kök Tash) of Samarqand: A Rebels' Narrative Transformed," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17/1 (January 2007), pp. 21-32.