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The Emirate of Bukhara: Last Days of a Central Asian Kingdom
In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the final decades of the Emirate of Bukhara, from its uneasy vassalage under the Russian Empire to its violent end under the Bolsheviks. They discuss the reign of Emir Alim Khan, who inherited a fragile state in 1910 and tried to modernize while resisting both tsarist encroachment and the growing Jadid reform movement. The conversation covers the 1910 Shia-Sunni clashes in Bukhara, the role of the conservative ulema, and the emir's failed attempts at military reform. They then move to the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when the Young Bukharan…
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