Azim Malikov  |  Email: azim_malikov@yahoo.com

Dr Azim Malikov is a Senior Research scholar at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology of Institute of History of Academy of Sciences of Republic of Uzbekistan. From 2004 to 2005, he directed the Center for Study of History of Uzbekistan at Samarkand State University. From 2010 to 2013, he was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Integration and Conflict at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany), where he became a member of the working group on Central Asia. His research interests focus on ethnicity and identity, social and cultural transformations of society in Central Asia, the history of Samarqand, Islamic shrines and sacred lineages in Central Asia.

Azim Malikov