Islamic Leadership and the State in Eurasia

Islamic Leadership and the State in Eurasia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 1839980516
ISBN-13 : 9781839980510
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Islamic Leadership and the State in Eurasia by : Galina Yemelianova

The book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia. It employs a history-based perspective and compares this relationship to that in both the Middle East and Western Europe.

The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History

The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0521842263
ISBN-13 : 9780521842266
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History by : Michal Biran

The book considers the political, institutional and cultural histories of the Qara Khitai.

On the Threshold of Eurasia

On the Threshold of Eurasia
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781501726521
ISBN-13 : 1501726528
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis On the Threshold of Eurasia by : Leah Feldman

On the Threshold of Eurasia explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet "East" as a political, aesthetic, and scientific system of ideas that emerged through a series of intertextual encounters produced by Russians and Turkic Muslims on the imperial periphery amidst the revolutionary transition from 1905 to 1929. Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, Leah Feldman examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers. Tracing these engagements and interactions between Russia and the Caucasus, Feldman offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity, and anti-imperialism from the vantage point not of the metropole but from the cosmopolitan centers at the edges of the Russian and later Soviet empires. In this way, On the Threshold of Eurasia illustrates the pivotal impact that the Caucasus (and the Soviet periphery more broadly) had—through the founding of an avant-garde poetics animated by Russian and Arabo-Persian precursors, Islamic metaphysics, and Marxist-Leninist theories of language —on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century.

Making Muslim Women European

Making Muslim Women European
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Publisher : Central European University Press
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : 9789633863688
ISBN-13 : 9633863686
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Muslim Women European by : Fabio Giomi

This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were silent and relegated to a purely private space until 1945, when the communist state “unveiled” and “liberated” them from the top down. After systematic archival research in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Austria, Fabio Giomi challenges this view by showing: • How different sectors of the Yugoslav elite through association publications, imagined the role of Muslim women in post-Ottoman times, and how Muslim women took part in the construction or the contestation of these narratives. • How associations employed different means in order to forge a generation of “New Muslim Women” able to cope with the post-Ottoman political and social circumstances. • And how Muslim women used the tools provided by the associations in order to pursue their own projects, aims and agendas. The insights are relevant for today’s challenges facing Muslim women in Europe. The text is illustrated with exceptional photographs.

The Muslim Eurasia

The Muslim Eurasia
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9781000947779
ISBN-13 : 1000947777
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Muslim Eurasia by : Yaacov Ro'i

The former Muslim republics of the USSR are struggling to strike a balance between the legacy of the Soviet regime and the revival of their own, traditional culture. This volume examines the religion, economy and demography of the areas as well as both internal and external relations.

Eurasian Crossroads

Eurasian Crossroads
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 472
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ISBN-10 : 0231139241
ISBN-13 : 9780231139243
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Eurasian Crossroads by : James A. Millward

Presents a comprehensive study of the central Asian region of Xinjiang's history and people from antiquity to the present. Discusses Xinjiang's rich environmental, cultural and ethno-political heritage.

Imperial Russia's Muslims

Imperial Russia's Muslims
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781316381038
ISBN-13 : 131638103X
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Imperial Russia's Muslims by : Mustafa Tuna

Imperial Russia's Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the roles of Islam, social networks, state interventions, infrastructural changes and the globalization of European modernity in transforming imperial Russia's oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims. Shifting between local, imperial and transregional frameworks, Tuna reveals how the Russian state sought to manage Muslim communities, the ways in which both the state and Muslim society were transformed by European modernity, and the extent to which the long nineteenth century either fused Russia's Muslims and the tsarist state or drew them apart. The book raises questions about imperial governance, diversity, minorities, and Islamic reform, and in doing so proposes a new theoretical model for the study of imperial situations.

Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe

Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781400831357
ISBN-13 : 1400831350
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe by : Kristen Ghodsee

Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks, Slavic Muslims living in the remote mountains of southern Bulgaria. After Communism fell in 1989, Muslim minorities in Bulgaria sought to rediscover their faith after decades of state-imposed atheism. But instead of returning to their traditionally heterodox roots, isolated groups of Pomaks embraced a distinctly foreign type of Islam, which swept into their communities on the back of Saudi-financed international aid to Balkan Muslims, and which these Pomaks believe to be a more correct interpretation of their religion. Ghodsee explores how gender relations among the Pomaks had to be renegotiated after the collapse of both Communism and the region's state-subsidized lead and zinc mines. She shows how mosques have replaced the mines as the primary site for jobless and underemployed men to express their masculinity, and how Muslim women have encouraged this as a way to combat alcoholism and domestic violence. Ghodsee demonstrates how women's embrace of this new form of Islam has led them to adopt more conservative family roles, and how the Pomaks' new religion remains deeply influenced by Bulgaria's Marxist-Leninist legacy, with its calls for morality, social justice, and human solidarity.

Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia

Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 355
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ISBN-10 : 9780520298750
ISBN-13 : 0520298756
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia by : Michal Biran

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia reveals the individual stories of three key groups of people—military commanders, merchants, and intellectuals—from across Eurasia. These annotated biographies bring to the fore a compelling picture of the Mongol Empire from a wide range of historical sources in multiple languages, providing important insights into a period unique for its rapid and far-reaching transformations. Read together or separately, they offer the perfect starting point for any discussion of the Mongol Empire’s impact on China, the Muslim world, and the West and illustrate the scale, diversity, and creativity of the cross-cultural exchange along the continental and maritime Silk Roads. Features and Benefits: Synthesizes historical information from Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Latin sources that are otherwise inaccessible to English-speaking audiences. Presents in an accessible manner individual life stories that serve as a springboard for discussing themes such as military expansion, cross-cultural contacts, migration, conversion, gender, diplomacy, transregional commercial networks, and more. Each chapter includes a bibliography to assist students and instructors seeking to further explore the individuals and topics discussed. Informative maps, images, and tables throughout the volume supplement each biography.

Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780190917272
ISBN-13 : 019091727X
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union by : Bayram Balci

Provides a sophisticated account of both the internal dynamics and external influences in the evolution of Islam in the region