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Author : Alexandre Bennigsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520055766
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Mystics and Commissars written by Alexandre Bennigsen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602971
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Chechnya written by Tony Wood and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case for Chechnya sharply criticizes the role of Western nations in their struggle, and lays bare the weakness-and shamefulness-of the arguments used to deny the Chechens' right to sovereignty. Tony Wood considers Russo-Chechen relations over the past century and a half, as well as the fate of the region since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Author : Marlene Laruelle
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538371
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Constructing the Uzbek State written by Marlene Laruelle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the transformations of the region as a whole. And yet, more than 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, evaluating Uzbekistan’s post-Soviet transformation remains complicated. Practitioners and scholars have seen access to sources, data, and fieldwork progressively restricted since the early 2000s. The death of President Islam Karimov, in power for a quarter of century, in late 2016, reopened the future of the country, offering it more room for evolution. To better grasp the challenges facing post-Karimov Uzbekistan, this volume reviews nearly three decades of independence. In the first part, it discusses the political construct of Uzbekistan under Karimov, based on the delineation between the state, the elite, and the people, and the tight links between politics and economy. The second section of the volume delves into the social and cultural changes related to labor migration and one specific trigger – the difficulties to reform agriculture. The third part explores the place of religion in Uzbekistan, both at the state level and in society, while the last part looks at the renegotiation of collective identities.
Author : Alexander Knysh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900421576X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Islamic Mysticism written by Alexander Knysh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a general survey of the rise and development of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) up to the modern period, which takes into account the latest achievements of scholarship on the subject. Sufism is examined from a variety of perspectives: as a vibrant social institution, a specific form of artistic expression, an ascetic and contemplative practice, and a distinctive intellectual tradition. Islamic Mysticism by Knysh is a comprehensive survey of the interesting and fascinating world of Islamic Mysticism.
Author : Julian Baldick
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814711391
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Mystical Islam written by Julian Baldick and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers the origins of Sufism and early influences, particularly from Christianity; the rise of the great Sufi organizations; the thought of Sufism's main theorist and systemizer, Ibn Arabi; Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes; relations with Shi'ism in Iran; Sufism in the heyday of the great empires in Iran, India, and Turkey; and relations with Turkey and Egypt during the nineteenth century as well as Sufi practices in the twentieth century."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : David Motadel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674724607
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Islam and Nazi Germany's War written by David Motadel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With troops fighting in regions populated by Muslims from the Sahara to the Caucasus, Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. David Motadel provides the first comprehensive account of Berlin’s ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world.
Author : Tayfun Atay
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3867417431
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (674 download)
Download or read book A Muslim Mystic Community in Britain written by Tayfun Atay and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a social anthropological analysis (based on ethnographic fieldwork) of the discourse and social practice of an Islamic-mystic community in London, namely, the branch of Naqshbandi Sufi order led by Sheikh Nazim of Cyprus. The Naqshbandi order is a well-known mystical institution having a widespread historical and contemporary influence on the life of many Muslims all over the world, including the West. The book focuses particularly on the definitions and reflections of the members of this branch upon themselves and the wider modern ('western') society outside their close-knit community. It reveals that the Islamic discourse of the community encompasses a multitude of expressions by which the members' perceptions of their social and spiritual universe are shaped and communicated to a wider audience. And it concludes that a thorough analysis of an Islamic community should pay particular attention to three closely related discursive processes: (a) the reflections of such a community on the wider (modern) society of which it is a part; (b) the ways in which it defines itself as 'Islamic' and contests with other Muslim groups or movements for the representation of the 'correct model' of Islamic tradition; (c) the discourses of conflict and power within such a community. Tayfun Atay holds an MA in Area Studies (Near & Middle East) and a PhD in Social Anthropology from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has done ethnographic fieldworks in London and many parts of Turkey, and published five monographs in Turkish. Currently, he is Professor of Ethnology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnology at the University of Ankara.
Author : Jeff Meyers
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498539319
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Criminal–Terror Nexus in Chechnya written by Jeff Meyers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The line between criminal and terrorist groups is often blurred, and Chechen groups are an excellent example of this new phenomenon. As the Soviet Union collapsed, groups began to fill the cracks offering services that the state could not. The Chechens were one group that outrivaled many groups, and they soon became synonymous throughout the Russian Federation with criminal. This work looks into the historical, social, and religious reasons behind the rise of militant Islam in the region. From there, it will discuss the historical difference between organized crime and terror, how the two have coalesced into the crime-terror nexus, and how the Chechens compare to two other groups that have gone through the same evolution: The Sicilian mafia, and the militant Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, or IMU. Though neither group are exactly the same, there are links that can help the reader understand the domestic and foreign problems that twenty-first century nation-states deal with throughout the world.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373071
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sufism in Central Asia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume mark a new phase in the development of scholarship on Sufi traditions of Central Asia, expanding and deepening the source base, reconceptualizing basic frameworks for understanding Sufi history, and challenging received assumptions and narratives.
Author : Bruce B. Lawrence
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147801282X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader written by Bruce B. Lawrence and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key writings, among them analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions and methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the organizing rubric: theorizing Islam, revaluing Muslim comparativists, translating Sufism, deconstructing religious modernity, networking Muslims, and reflecting on the Divine. Throughout, Lawrence attributes the resilience of Islam to its cosmopolitan character and Muslims' engagement in cross-cultural dialogue. Several essays also address the central role of institutional Sufism in various phases and domains of Islamic history. The volume concludes with Lawrence's reflections on Islam's spiritual and aesthetic resources in the context of global comity. Modeling what it means to study Islam beyond political and disciplinary borders as well as a commitment to linking empathetic imagination with critical reflection, this reader presents the broad arc of Lawrence's prescient contributions to the study of Islam.
Author : John B. Dunlop
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521636193
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Russia Confronts Chechnya written by John B. Dunlop and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the background to the Russian military invasion of Chechnya in 1994.
Author : Beatrice Manz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429981414
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Central Asia In Historical Perspective written by Beatrice Manz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the demise of Soviet power, the newly independent republics are redefining their identities and their relations with the world at large. In Central Asia, which lies at the crossroads of several cultures, the emerging trends are complex and ambiguous. In this volume leading experts explore factors that have driven the region's historical development and that continue to define it today: Overlapping Islamic, Russian, and steppe cultures and their impact on attempts to delimit national borders and to create independent states; the legacy of Soviet and earlier imperial rule in economic and social relations', and the competition between Uzbek, Tajik, and other group identities. The authors make few predictions, but their original and thought-provoking analyses offer readers new insight into those aspects of Central Asia's past that may shape its future.
Author : Adrian Hänni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 075560024X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Terrorism in the Cold War written by Adrian Hänni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last few years, however, things have evolved rapidly. Using a wide range of case studies including the KGB's Abduction Program, Polish Military Intelligence and North Korea's 'Terrorism and Counterterrorism', this book sheds new light on the relations between state and terrorist actors, allowing for a fresh and much more insightful assessment of the contacts, dealings, agreements and collusion with terrorist organizations undertaken by state actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This book presents the current state of research and provides an assessment of the nature, motives, effects, and major historical shifts of the relations between individual states and terrorist organizations. The articles collected demonstrate that these state-terrorism relationships were not only much more ambiguous than much of the older literature had suggested but are, in fact, crucial for the understanding of global political history in the Cold War era.
Author : Susan Gross Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548479X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Beyond Sovietology written by Susan Gross Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume - a product of the Soviet Domestic Politics workshop sponsored by the Social Science Research Council - marks an end and a new beginning. The end, of course, is that of Sovietology, now permanently "overtaken by events". The beginning encompasses not only a radical multiplication of subjects for analysis - the post-Soviet states - but also the arrival of a new generation of scholars entering the field at its turning point. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, they bring fresh contemporary social scientific questions and methods to an unprecedentedly accessible universe of diverse social groups and societies once subsumed under the Soviet rubric. Their work enriches not only post-Soviet studies but the entire range of comparativist work in the social sciences. Among the authors included here are Jane Dawson, Ellen Hamilton, Joel Hellman, Mark Saroyan, Joseph Schull and Michael Smith.
Author : Itzchak Weismann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134353049
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Naqshbandiyya written by Itzchak Weismann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naqshbandiyya is one of the most widespread and influential Sufi orders in the Muslim world. Having its origins in the Great Masters tradition of Central Asia almost a millennium ago, it played a significant role in the pre-modern history of the Indian subcontinent and the Ottoman Empire, and is still spreading today. This volume seeks to present a broad picture of the evolution of the ideas and organizational forms of the Naqshbandi order throughout its history. It combines a synthesis of the vast literature on the order with original research, and shall be an important contribution for those interested in Sufism, Islamic history and Muslim-Christian relations.
Author : G. Yemelianova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230288103
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Russia and Islam written by G. Yemelianova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of communism has revived the historical debate about Russia's relations with both the West and the East. Some commentators viewed the Russian-Chechen war as a clash of civilizations, which would shape the future relationships between the new Russia and its Muslim periphery and perhaps lead to its disintegration. But the reality has challenged this scenario. This book surveys the public and private relations between Russia and Islam and concludes these are more complex than is usually recognized.
Author : Austin Jersild
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773523296
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Orientalism and Empire written by Austin Jersild and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientalism and Empire sheds new light on the little-studied Russian empire in the Caucasus by exploring the tension between national and imperial identities on the Russian frontier. Austin Jersild contributes to the growing literature on Russian "orientalism" and the Russian encounter with Islam, and reminds us of the imperial background and its contribution to the formation of the twentieth-century ethno-territorial Soviet state. Orientalism and Empire describes the efforts of imperial integration and incorporation that emerged in the wake of the long war. Jersild discusses religion, ethnicity, archaeology, transcription of languages, customary law, and the fate of Shamil to illustrate the work of empire-builders and the emerging imperial imagination. Drawing on both Russian and Georgian materials from Tbilisi, he shows how shared cultural concerns between Russians and Georgians were especially important to the formation of the empire in the region.
