Yesim G. An Insider's Critique of The Kazakh People and Nation

Los Angeles: Asia Research Associates, 2007. — 152 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9794957-0-0Making an entirely new contribution to the study of Eastern philosophy and history, An Insider's Critique of the Kazakh People and Nation offers "a window on the Kazakh world" through one of the most prominent and treasured national philosopher-reformers to have appeared in their history: Abai Kunanbai-uhli, the great Kazakh poet- philosopher-prophet who lived and wrote in Kazakhstan from the latter part of the 19th to early 20th century as a pioneering and central figure in the Kazakh-Turkic Muslim-Jadid renaissance movement. His writings have received international recognition, with translations into Russian, French, German, Chinese, English and other world languages. They are herein complimented with and conveyed through the commentary of a top national post- Soviet Kazakh scholar. The entire range of Kazakh religious, cultural, social and political lifeways and institutions is covered against the backdrop of late Tsarist Russian imperial rule in Central Asia.