Historians of Central Asia

Khan of Khiva from 1643 to 1663

French historian (1885-1952)

Turkish historian and Turkologist (1890–1970)

Chagatai Turco-Mongol military general (died 1551)

Scottish orientalist (1895–1971)

thumb|French first edition of Narshakhi's History of Bukhara, 1892 Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Jafar Narshakhi (or Narshaki) (ca. 899–959), a Sogdian scholar from the village of Narshak in the Bukhara oasis is the first known historian in Central Asia. His unique History of Bukhara (Tarikh-i Bukhara) was written in Arabic and presented to the Samanid emperor Nuh I either in 943 or 944. The book provides important information on Bukhara that cannot be found in other contemporary sources. Nothing is known about Narshakhi except his authorship of this one book.

Ottoman admiral

British classical scholar and historian of classical antiquity (1869–1957)

American academic (1916–2011)

Uzbek 20th century historian of Turkestan and Central Asia (1917-2006)

American historian

Kyrgyzstani writer and historian

Kazakhstani academic (1846–1913)

Tajikistani medievalist and art historian (1936-2013)

Russian orientalist (1925-2016)

Azerbaijani-American history professor (born 1947)

lecturer

Soviet and Kazakh archaeologist, historian

French historian and academic (born 1969)