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Opportunity from Upheaval

This chapter focuses on different crises during the long nineteenth century that catalyzed new “dynasties” of scholars, allowing them to entrench their descendants in the state and nonstate institutions that provided resources and authority in their world. It looks at two families of scholars, both of whom came into prominence as a result of the political upheaval coinciding with the Manghit dynasty's rise to power. These two households provided services to the Turkic nobility that helped their patrons to justify their rule and extend it over new territories. In return, Manghit nobles provided the scholarly families with the resources necessary to perpetuate their legacy for over a century and a half. The chapter then considers the new geopolitical realities precipitated by the Russian subjugation of Bukhara in 1868 and how they led to the empowerment of a new crop of family dynasties alongside or in place of the old ones — albeit for a briefer duration, with the Bolshevik Revolution just around the corner.