Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

Die Provokation unserer Zeit lautet: Mit Globalisierung, "neuen Kriegen" und internationalem Terrorismus sind Krieg und Frieden, Innen- und Außenpolitik, Kämpfer und Zivilisten ununterscheidbar geworden. Der konflikt- und friedensbezogenen Forschung scheint die Wirklichkeit weggebrochen zu sein, für die sie ihre Modelle entwickelt hatte. Wie reagiert eine dem Frieden verschriebene Theorie und Bewegung auf diese Herausforderung? Das Buch verfolgt die Paradoxien, aber auch die Auswege dieses Denkens der Friedenspraxis in ihren Stadien.

List of contents

Part I: Metropolitan Oriental Studies 1 .The Imperial Roots of Soviet Orientology 2. Profiles under Pressure: Orientalists in Petrograd/Leningrad, 1918-56 3. Between the ‘Language of Humanity’ and Latinizatsiia: Nikolai Marr and the Oriental Department of the State Public Library in Leningrad 4. The Contribution of Oriental Scholarship to the Soviet Anti-Islamic Discourse: From the Union of Militant Atheists to the Knowledge Society 5. Soviet Kurdology and Kurdish Orientalism 6. Evgenii M. Primakov: Arabist and KGB Middleman, Director and Statesman 7. The Leningrad/St. Petersburg School of Scientific Islamology 8. Hijacking Islam: The Search for a New Soviet Interpretation of Political Islam in 1980 9. Scholars, Advisers and State-Builders: Soviet Afghan Studies in the Light of Present-Day Afghan Development Part II: Oriental Studies and National Historiography in the Republics 10. The Struggle for the Reestablishment of Oriental Studies in Twentieth-Century Kazan 11. Arabic Historical Studies in Twentieth-Century Daghestan 12. The Politics of Scholarship and the Scholarship of Politics: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Scholars Studying Tajikistan 13. Conceiving a People’s History: The 1920-1936 Discourse on the Kazakh Past 14. Ahmad Yasavi and the Divan-i hikmat in Soviet Scholarship 15. Kyrgyz – Muslim - Central Asian? Recent Approaches to the Study of Kyrgyz Culture in Kyrgyzstan 16. The Transformation of Azerbaijani Orientalists into Islamic Thinkers after 1991

About the author

Michael Kemper is Professor of Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Stephan Conermann is Professor of Islamic Studies, and acting director of the Asia Center at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Michael (University of Amsterdam Kemper, Michael Conermann Kemper
• Assisted by: Stephan Conermann (Editor), Conermann Stephan (Editor), Michael Kemper (Editor), Kemper Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2013
• EAN: 9780415838207
• ISBN: 978-0-415-83820-7
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Islam, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General