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Editor in Chief
Paolo Sartori, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Editorial Board
Prof. Sergey Abashin, European University at St Petersburg, Russia
Prof. Bakhtiyar Babadjanov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan
Prof. Étienne de La Vaissière, EHESS, France
Prof. Devin DeWeese, Indiana University, US
Dr. Stéphane A. Dudoignon, CNRS/EHESS, France
Dr. Svetlana Jacquesson, Palacký University, Czechia
Dr. Botakoz Kassymbekova, University of Basel, Switzerland
Dr. Isabelle Ohayon, CNRS, France
Dr. Beatrice Penati, University of Liverpool, UK
Dr. Benedek Péri, Eötvös Lórand University, Hungary
Dr. Niccolò Pianciola, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Prof. Jürgen Paul, University of Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Flora Roberts, Cardiff University, UK
Dr. Eric Schluessel, The George Washington University, US
Prof. Elmira Sultangalieva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
Dr. Olga Yastrebova, St Petersburg State University, Russia
After the completion of a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies (History and Philology) at the University of Rome ‘la Sapienza” (2006),’ Paolo Sartori has been a Volkswagen Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Martin-Luther University in Halle/Wittenberg from 2007 to 2011. A fellow of the Institute of Iranian Studies since 2011, he has been the recipient of various academic distinctions such as the Start Award by the Austrian Science Fund (2013); the Best Publication Award by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2014); the elected membership of the Austrian Young Academy (2016); the Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History in Northern Eurasia (2019).

He has two main fields of interest in his current research: the history of knowledge production about Islam in the Russian Empire, with a special focus on the formation of archives in the post-Petrine era; and Soviet Muslimness, with special attention devoted to Central Asia after the Second World War. His recent publications include an essay on the ‘Archive of the Khans of Khiva’ as a colonial documentary aggregate ( Quaderni Storici) and a study devoted to the relationship between Russian imperial expansion in the early 18th century and ignorance of things Central Asian ( Itinerario).

He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, the Journal of Central Asian History (Brill) and as the Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia.

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The Journal of Central Asian History (JCAH) is dedicated to the study of the history of Central Asia here understood as the landmass stretching from the Caspian Sea to the Gobi Desert, and from Siberia to northern Afghanistan, an area encompassing the historical regions of Transoxiana, Khorezm, the Qazaq Steppe, Zungharia, the Tarim Basin, and the Mongol lands. JCAH welcomes articles written in English and Russian devoted to all historical disciplines ranging from intellectual to environmental history. The main concern of the publication is to advance research into the rich history of Central Asia from the Arab expansion in the eighth century to the end of the twentieth century.

In the past the discipline of Central Asian Studies has been attached to various academic constituencies such as Turkology, Russian/Soviet Studies, Chinese Studies, Iranian and Islamic Studies. JCAH sets out to put into conversation all these academic traditions to situate the study of Central Asian history in a broader, indeed global network of scholarly exchange. Given the nature of such intellectual interactions, JCAH encourages contributions crossing disciplinary boundaries. Explorations of fields such as (but not limited to) the history of political thought, philosophy, jurisprudence, mystical traditions, religious practices, the history of the book, and the history of knowledge production are strongly encouraged.

Central Asia has always been a multilingual space and JCAH confers equal significance upon any linguistic medium of learned activity, intellectual exchange, and bureaucratic communication in use in the region. Contributors are therefore invited to make use of sources crafted in languages including Arabic, Armenian, Chaghatay, Chinese, Georgian, Qazaq, Kyrgyz, Manchu, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Uyghur, and Uzbek. In addition, JCAH encourages historical research based upon rigorous philological work. Together with research articles, the Journal envisages the publication of scholarly contributions in other formats such as editions of texts, catalogues, bibliographical and archival resources.

JCAH publishes two issues per year. All articles published in JCAH undergo a double-blind peer review process.
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