1. Yuri Enohovich Bregel was one of the world's leading historians of Islamic Central Asia.
11 Facts About Yuri Bregel
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Yuri Bregel published extensively on Persian- and Turkic-language history and historiography, and on political, economic and ethnic history in Central Asia and the Muslim world.
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Yuri Bregel lived in the Soviet Union, Israel, and the United States.
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Yuri Bregel was born in Moscow, the son of Enoch Bregel, a noted Soviet political economist.
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Yuri Bregel fought in the Crimea, Belorussia, Poland, and Germany; he was injured twice and decorated.
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In 1955, Yuri Bregel married Liliya Davydovna Rozenberg, then a doctoral student at Moscow State University and a specialist on the social and administrative history of Portuguese India in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Yuri Bregel joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he became an endowed Chair and Professor of the History of the Muslim Peoples.
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In 1981 Yuri Bregel moved to the United States, to Bloomington, Indiana, where he joined what was then Indiana University's Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies, augmenting the department's research profile and course offerings in Central Asian history and historiography and in the study of Turkic and Persian manuscripts, while enhancing the Library's holdings of rare primary and secondary sources.
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Yuri Bregel served as Director of Indiana University's Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies from 1986 to 1997, and as Director of Indiana University's Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center from 1989 to 1997.
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Yuri Bregel served as consulting editor for the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, senior editor for the Oriental Literature Public House in Moscow, a research fellow at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a member of the Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research and the Association for Central Asian Studies.
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Yuri Bregel authored numerous publications on the medieval and early modern history of Central Asia, including the 3-volume Bibliography of Islamic Central Asia, the edition and translation of the important Khivan chronicle Firdaws al-iqbal and An Historical Atlas of Central Asia, in addition to serving as editor-in-chief of Papers on Inner Asia and many other publications.