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THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Water is scarce, winters are frigid, summers are scorching, mountains are towering, deserts are vast; Central Asians use structures not only to shelter themselves from the harsh climate, but to create symbols representing underlying systems of belief.

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MOBILE IDENTITIES THROUGH TIME

Who are Central Asians? Both Nomads and urban dwellers influenced by internal mixing and external conquest, this question is not easily answered. Not only have identities changed across space, but through time as well.

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ISLAMIC CULTURAL MOVEMENTS

Across vast time periods, expansive territories and various cultures, there is perhaps but one unifying factor throughout Central Asian culture- Islam. Muslim Central Asians have inherited a deep and rich Islamic tradition that has been subject to revival, reform and growth despite attempts to eradicate it from the region.

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