Central Asian women, kept alive traditional Shamanic Islamic religious culture, especially Sufism, even when all religion was banned. Women played a vital part in keeping the flame of Islam burning throughout the region, significantly in the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan, the cradle of female Islamic culture. (Buy here)
The articles in this book (written by outstanding scholars) create a theory, concept and practical model of a significant training system of the oral tradition, in the Turkic speaking world. Published by Lambert Academic Publisher. (ISBN-10:3838315588, ISBN-13:978-3838315584) (Buy here)
Razia Sultanova has written many articles for her field in ethnomusicology, the most recent of which being "Female Celebrations in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan", which was written for the 2008 Yearbook for Traditional Music. (Download here)
Razia Sultanova wrote an article/introduction for the Ethnomusicology Forum, called "Music and Identity in Central Asia". She was invited to become guest editor of the special issue on central asian music, which came out in 2005 as Volume 14 No. 2. (Download here)
A traditional piece from the Ferghana Valley that in times gone by was performed for entertainment and dance at women’s gatherings, here played on the Uzbek dutar, a long-necked plucked two–stringed lute.(Download/Listen here)