SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF SYNCRETIZATION IN TRANSOXIANA IN THE 7TH–9TH CENTURIES
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This article examines the social and cultural foundations of religious-cultural syncretization in Transoxiana (Movarounnahr) during the 7th–9th centuries. Its aim is to argue that syncretization was neither a superficial mixture of religions nor a mere survival of pre-Islamic traditions, but a complex process shaped by urban life, local elites, merchant networks, household ritual, sacred space, visual culture, and the gradual progress of Islamization. Written and archaeological sources, ossuaries, wall paintings, numismatic and epigraphic data are analysed through source criticism and historical-comparative methods. The findings indicate that syncretization was a transformative process in which Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Manichaean, Christian, local and Islamic elements coexisted, competed, and were reinterpreted within a changing social world.
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