Ruhnama (English Wikipedia)

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"The cult of the Turkmen leader". BBC News. 2 November 2001.
"Turkmen book 'blasted into space'". BBC News. 27 August 2005.
Ingram, Simon (29 May 2002). "Turkmen live by leader's book". BBC News. Retrieved 20 August 2016.

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Peyrouse, Sebastien (2015). "Culture and Religion: The Issues of Reconstruction". Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development. Routledge. pp. 89–107. doi:10.4324/9781315698571. ISBN 978-1-317-45326-0.
Qvortrup, Matt (2021). "The Psychopathology of Dictatorship". Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Slow Demise of Democracy. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 22–34. ISBN 978-3-11-071332-9.
Peyrouse, Sebastien (2015). "Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov: Illusion of a Khrushchevian Thaw?". Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development. Routledge. pp. 108–132. doi:10.4324/9781315698571. ISBN 978-1-317-45325-3.

ceeol.com (Global: 3,574^th place; English: 2,507^th place)

Nicolosi, Riccardo (2017). "Saparmyrat Niyazov's Ruhnama: The Invention of Turkmenistan". In Koschorke, Albrecht; Kaminskij, Konstantin (eds.). Tyrants Writing Poetry. Central European University Press. ISBN 978-963-386-202-5.
Saunders, Robert A. (2009). "Turkmenistan: Rage Against the Ruhnama". Transitions Online (3/03).

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Bouma, Amieke (2011). "Turkmenistan: Epics in Place of Historiography". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 59 (4): 559–585. doi:10.25162/jgo-2011-0023. JSTOR 41445759. S2CID 148953638.
Peyrouse, Sebastien (2015). "Culture and Religion: The Issues of Reconstruction". Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development. Routledge. pp. 89–107. doi:10.4324/9781315698571. ISBN 978-1-317-45326-0.
Kuru, Ahmet T (March 2002). "Between the state and cultural zones: Nation building in Turkmenistan". Central Asian Survey. 21 (1): 71–90. doi:10.1080/02634930220127955. S2CID 30057239.
Shnirelman, Victor (September 2009). "Aryans or Proto-Turks? Contested Ancestors in Contemporary Central Asia". Nationalities Papers. 37 (5): 557–587. doi:10.1080/00905990903122834. S2CID 161181364.
Segal, Joes (2016). "A Heavy Heritage". Art and Politics. pp. 111–128. doi:10.1515/9789048531516-008. ISBN 978-90-485-3151-6.
Shapira, Dan (2010). "Īrān-o Tūran: On Iranian (and Quasi-Iranian) in the Ruhnama". Iran and the Caucasus. 14 (2): 265–278. doi:10.1163/157338410X12743419190188.
Yilmaz, Harun (December 2012). "History writing as agitation and propaganda: the Kazakh history book of 1943". Central Asian Survey. 31 (4): 409–423. doi:10.1080/02634937.2012.738852. S2CID 145641003.
Horák, Slavomír (3 April 2015). "The Battle of Gökdepe in the Turkmen post-Soviet historical discourse". Central Asian Survey. 34 (2): 149–161. doi:10.1080/02634937.2014.964940. S2CID 145283082.
Clement, Victoria (July 2014). "Articulating national identity in Turkmenistan: inventing tradition through myth, cult and language". Nations and Nationalism. 20 (3): 546–562. doi:10.1111/nana.12052.
Denison, Michael (September 2009). "The Art of the Impossible: Political Symbolism, and the Creation of National Identity and Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan". Europe-Asia Studies. 61 (7): 1167–1187. doi:10.1080/09668130903068715. S2CID 154602989.
Dolive, Caroline (2014). "Publicizing Nationalism". (Re)Constructing Memory. pp. 79–102. doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-656-1_5. ISBN 978-94-6209-656-1.
Heinritz, Katrin (2007). "Demokratisierung zur Diktatur? Über die fehlgeleitete Demokratisierungsdiskussion am Beispiel Turkmenistans" [Democratisation to dictatorship? About the misguided democratisation discussion using the example of Turkmenistan]. In Buzogany, Aron; Frankenberger, Rolf (eds.). Osteuropa (in German). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG. pp. 133–154. doi:10.5771/9783845204451-133. ISBN 978-3-8452-0445-1.
Hann, Chris; Pelkmans, Mathijs (November 2009). "Realigning Religion and Power in Central Asia: Islam, Nation-State and (Post)Socialism". Europe-Asia Studies. 61 (9): 1517–1541. doi:10.1080/09668130903209111. S2CID 145381219.
Polese, Abel; Horák, Slavomir (May 2015). "A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan". Nationalities Papers. 43 (3): 457–478. doi:10.1080/00905992.2015.1028913. S2CID 142510277.
Yacher, Leon (December 2006). "Photojournal: Turkmenistan". Focus on Geography. 49 (3): 17–21. doi:10.1111/j.1949-8535.2006.tb00169.x.
Ahn, Elise S.; Jensen, Antonia (2016). "Language Teaching in Turkmenistan: An Autoethnographic Journey". Language Change in Central Asia. pp. 59–86. doi:10.1515/9781614514534-008. ISBN 978-1-61451-453-4.
Kurtov, Adzhar (November 2007). "Presidential Seat or Padishah's Throne?: The Distinctive Features of Supreme Power in Central Asian States". Russian Social Science Review. 48 (6): 64–95. doi:10.1080/10611428.2007.11065272. S2CID 219313220.
Cooley, Alexander A.; Heathershaw, John (2020). "Introduction: Central Asia Beyond Borders". Dictators Without Borders. pp. 1–27. doi:10.12987/9780300222098-004. ISBN 978-0-300-22209-8. S2CID 246127185.
Gaynor, Kelly Lee (2 October 2017). "Transformations in Turkmen higher education: current opportunities and challenges at a new university". Central Asian Survey. 36 (4): 473–492. doi:10.1080/02634937.2017.1367645. S2CID 148624243.
Post, Jerrold M. (4 July 2014). "Dreams of Glory: Narcissism and Politics". Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 34 (5): 475–485. doi:10.1080/07351690.2014.916986. S2CID 144849393.
Peyrouse, Sebastien (2015). "Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov: Illusion of a Khrushchevian Thaw?". Turkmenistan: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development: Strategies of Power, Dilemmas of Development. Routledge. pp. 108–132. doi:10.4324/9781315698571. ISBN 978-1-317-45325-3.
Horák, Slavomír (2020). "Education in Turkmenistan Under the Second President: Genuine Reforms or Make Believe?". Education in Central Asia. Education, Equity, Economy. Vol. 8. pp. 71–91. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50127-3_5. ISBN 978-3-030-50126-6. S2CID 226746701.
Polese, Abel; Ó Beacháin, Donnacha; Horák, Slavomír (2 October 2017). "Strategies of legitimation in Central Asia: regime durability in Turkmenistan". Contemporary Politics. 23 (4): 427–445. doi:10.1080/13569775.2017.1331391. S2CID 157614052.
Kaya, Mümtaz (21 November 2007). "De l'intraculturel à l'interculturel : l'opération traduisante: Exemples de quelques problèmes rencontrés lors de l'opération de décodage et de transcodage". Meta. 52 (3): 584–588. doi:10.7202/016745ar. hdl:11693/48307.

eurasianet.org (Global: 3,349^th place; English: 2,755^th place)

"Turkmen Government Removes Ruhnama as Required Subject". Eurasianet. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

forum18.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Corley, Felix (1 March 2005). "Turkmenistan: President's personality cult imposed on religious communities". Forum 18 News Service. Retrieved 25 May 2012.

hdl.handle.net (Global: 66^th place; English: 34^th place)

Kaya, Mümtaz (21 November 2007). "De l'intraculturel à l'interculturel : l'opération traduisante: Exemples de quelques problèmes rencontrés lors de l'opération de décodage et de transcodage". Meta. 52 (3): 584–588. doi:10.7202/016745ar. hdl:11693/48307.

hokudai.ac.jp (Global: 4,984^th place; English: 5,778^th place)

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Šír, Jan (2008). "Cult of Personality in Monumental Art and Architecture: The Case of Post-Soviet Turkmenistan" (PDF). Acta Slavica Iaponica. 25: 206–207.

jhu.edu (Global: 560^th place; English: 313^th place)

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Clement, Victoria (2018). "Altyn Asyr Nesli: Nyýazow's Golden Generation, 1996–2006". Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914–2014. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 137–159. ISBN 978-0-8229-8610-2. Project MUSE chapter 2121204.
Koschorke, Albrecht; Butler, Erik (2017). On Hitler's Mein Kampf: The Poetics of National Socialism. The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-33877-6. Project MUSE book 51723.^{[page needed]}
Shields, Tanya L. (2015). "Inward Hunger: How Eric Williams Fails Postcolonial History". In Shields, Tanya L. (ed.). The Legacy of Eric Williams: Into the Postcolonial Moment. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-62674-698-5. Project MUSE chapter 1579006.
Khalid, Adeeb (2021). "Are We Still Post-Soviet?". Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton University Press. pp. 458–474. ISBN 978-0-691-22043-7. Project MUSE chapter 2904091.
Clement, Victoria (2018). "Conclusion". Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914–2014. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 173–180. ISBN 978-0-8229-8610-2. Project MUSE chapter 2121207.
Clement, Victoria (2018). "From Happy Socialism to Independence, 1985–1996". Learning to Become Turkmen: Literacy, Language, and Power, 1914–2014. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 112–136. ISBN 978-0-8229-8610-2. Project MUSE chapter 2121202.
Pomfret, Richard (2019). "Turkmenistan". The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road. Princeton University Press. pp. 125–154. ISBN 978-0-691-18540-8. Project MUSE chapter 2222857.
Malashenko, Alexey (2013). "Turkmenistan: No Longer Exotic, But Still Authoritarian". The Fight for Influence: Russia in Central Asia. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. pp. 171–192. ISBN 978-0-87003-413-8. Project MUSE chapter 1196478.

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

Bouma, Amieke (2011). "Turkmenistan: Epics in Place of Historiography". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 59 (4): 559–585. doi:10.25162/jgo-2011-0023. JSTOR 41445759. S2CID 148953638.
Sullivan, Charles J. (2016). "Halk, Watan, Berdymukhammedov! Political Transition and Regime Continuity in Turkmenistan". Region. 5 (1): 39. JSTOR 24896613.

latimes.com (Global: 32^nd place; English: 21^st place)

Times Wire Reporter (21 March 2006). "Read My Words, Go to Heaven, Leader Says". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 May 2012.

lenta.ru (Global: 340^th place; English: 3,188^th place)

Туркменам вернули прежний календарь, Lenta.ru, July 1, 2008 (in Russian)

newyorker.com (Global: 191^st place; English: 122^nd place)

Remnick, David (23 April 2006). "The Land of Turkmenbashi". The New Yorker.
Halford, Macy (27 April 2010). "Shadow of the Ruhnama". The New Yorker.

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Bouma, Amieke (2011). "Turkmenistan: Epics in Place of Historiography". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 59 (4): 559–585. doi:10.25162/jgo-2011-0023. JSTOR 41445759. S2CID 148953638.
Kuru, Ahmet T (March 2002). "Between the state and cultural zones: Nation building in Turkmenistan". Central Asian Survey. 21 (1): 71–90. doi:10.1080/02634930220127955. S2CID 30057239.
Shnirelman, Victor (September 2009). "Aryans or Proto-Turks? Contested Ancestors in Contemporary Central Asia". Nationalities Papers. 37 (5): 557–587. doi:10.1080/00905990903122834. S2CID 161181364.
Yilmaz, Harun (December 2012). "History writing as agitation and propaganda: the Kazakh history book of 1943". Central Asian Survey. 31 (4): 409–423. doi:10.1080/02634937.2012.738852. S2CID 145641003.
Horák, Slavomír (3 April 2015). "The Battle of Gökdepe in the Turkmen post-Soviet historical discourse". Central Asian Survey. 34 (2): 149–161. doi:10.1080/02634937.2014.964940. S2CID 145283082.
Denison, Michael (September 2009). "The Art of the Impossible: Political Symbolism, and the Creation of National Identity and Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan". Europe-Asia Studies. 61 (7): 1167–1187. doi:10.1080/09668130903068715. S2CID 154602989.
Hann, Chris; Pelkmans, Mathijs (November 2009). "Realigning Religion and Power in Central Asia: Islam, Nation-State and (Post)Socialism". Europe-Asia Studies. 61 (9): 1517–1541. doi:10.1080/09668130903209111. S2CID 145381219.
Polese, Abel; Horák, Slavomir (May 2015). "A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan". Nationalities Papers. 43 (3): 457–478. doi:10.1080/00905992.2015.1028913. S2CID 142510277.
Kurtov, Adzhar (November 2007). "Presidential Seat or Padishah's Throne?: The Distinctive Features of Supreme Power in Central Asian States". Russian Social Science Review. 48 (6): 64–95. doi:10.1080/10611428.2007.11065272. S2CID 219313220.
Cooley, Alexander A.; Heathershaw, John (2020). "Introduction: Central Asia Beyond Borders". Dictators Without Borders. pp. 1–27. doi:10.12987/9780300222098-004. ISBN 978-0-300-22209-8. S2CID 246127185.
Gaynor, Kelly Lee (2 October 2017). "Transformations in Turkmen higher education: current opportunities and challenges at a new university". Central Asian Survey. 36 (4): 473–492. doi:10.1080/02634937.2017.1367645. S2CID 148624243.
Post, Jerrold M. (4 July 2014). "Dreams of Glory: Narcissism and Politics". Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 34 (5): 475–485. doi:10.1080/07351690.2014.916986. S2CID 144849393.
Horák, Slavomír (2020). "Education in Turkmenistan Under the Second President: Genuine Reforms or Make Believe?". Education in Central Asia. Education, Equity, Economy. Vol. 8. pp. 71–91. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50127-3_5. ISBN 978-3-030-50126-6. S2CID 226746701.
Polese, Abel; Ó Beacháin, Donnacha; Horák, Slavomír (2 October 2017). "Strategies of legitimation in Central Asia: regime durability in Turkmenistan". Contemporary Politics. 23 (4): 427–445. doi:10.1080/13569775.2017.1331391. S2CID 157614052.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Kalder, Daniel (29 December 2006). "A dictator's guide to the universe". The Guardian.

vice.com (Global: 247^th place; English: 175^th place)

Hay, Mark (31 July 2014). "Turkmenistan Is Finally Putting the 'Ruhnama' Behind Them". VICE. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2018.

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Hay, Mark (31 July 2014). "Turkmenistan Is Finally Putting the 'Ruhnama' Behind Them". VICE. Archived from the original on 20 March 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
Lomov, Anton; Rickleton, Christopher (22 December 2016). "Cult of Turkmen 'Father' fades into history, 10 years on". Yahoo! News via Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2018.

yahoo.com (Global: 431^st place; English: 257^th place)

Lomov, Anton; Rickleton, Christopher (22 December 2016). "Cult of Turkmen 'Father' fades into history, 10 years on". Yahoo! News via Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2018.

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