Synoposis of Chapter Six Mountain Funeral

A large part of this chapter is contributed to the rise of The Wahhabis and the Wahhabism, how it evolves to be terrorism in the next few decades.

费尔干纳山谷面积：长321800 米，宽160900米（two hundred miles across and one hundred miles wide）

人口：10 million inhabitants

占比：20%中亚人口

特色：it retained the most religious observant Muslims, esp. in portions of the valley belonging to Uzbekistan 尤其是乌兹别克斯坦境内的这部分

The Wahhabis 瓦哈比派: Wahhabism

any Central Asian Muslims who partook of even the most innocuous Islamic ritual. In the post-Soviet era, however, the Wahhabi threat had become far more literal. These Wahhabis Rustam mentioned were, indeed, Islamist automatons programmed by missionaries from the deserts of Saudi Arabia, who in the early nineties poured into newly open Central Asia, concentrating most of their efforts in the Ferghana Valley.”

The Justice Social Democratic Party 公正社会民主党 (Uzbek:Adolat Sotsial Demokratik Partiyasi; ASDP) is a political party in Uzbekistan. One of the founders and the first general secretary of the party was Anvar Juraboev. It is one of the four parties who acts as a pro-government opposition to the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, the country`s ruling party.

Glossary

acolytes 信徒

vigilante: a member of a group of people who try to prevent crime or punish criminals in their community, especially because they think the police are not doing this (尤指认为警方不力而自发组织的)治安会会员

muezzin: a man who calls Muslims to prayer, usually from the tower of a mosque 宣礼员(通常在清真寺宣礼塔上召集穆斯林祈祷)

pauperhood 贫民

oratory: the skill of making powerful and effective speeches in public讲演术；雄辩术

mullah: a Muslim teacher of religion and holy law 毛拉(穆斯林宗教和圣法的教师)

cowed: made to feel afraid and that you are not as good as sb else 使感到胆怯的；自惭形秽的

jihad: a holy war fought by Muslims to defend Islam圣战；吉哈德

mujahedeen(尤指中东的)穆斯林游击队员

madrasas 伊斯兰学校

forswear 发誓抛弃

salaarm (穆斯林的)额手礼,问安,敬礼

haberdashery n. （美）男子服饰用品店；（英）杂货商店

chapeau 帽子

veracity 真实性

skirmishes 小规模战斗

epitaph 墓志铭

disconsolate 不舒服的

gingerly 小心翼翼的

outcropping 露岩区

rappel v. lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside 用绳索下降

piedmont 山麓

shale 页岩

ibex: a mountain goat with long curved horns 北山羊，羱羊(角长而弯曲)

cirrocumulus 卷积云

impervious 不受影响的；不渗水的

chalet 小木屋，小棚屋

spume 泡沫?

strong and ropy 强健的

windbreaker 防风夹克

pallor 脸色苍白 n.

stentorian adj. 声音洪亮的

profligacy n. 挥霍

quickly poured me a glass of profligacy one might use to pour milk

outpatient 门诊病人

Alcatraz: Psychiastric ward 精神病院

prognathous adj. 下巴突出的

paucity of options 为数不多的选择