Philosophy of the Caucasus and of Central Asia in the Soviet period

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-299
Author(s):  
Bernard Jeu
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Caucasus

Soviet “Blacks” and Place Making in Leningrad and Moscow

Slavic Review ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Sahadeo
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Host Population ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Place Making ◽  
The Caucasus

Movement from the USSR's margins to Leningrad and Moscow, among groups ranging from traders to professionals, intensified in the late Soviet period. Using oral histories, Jeff Sahadeo analyzes the migration and place-making experiences of migrants from Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Asian RSFSR, all of whom were often referred to then as well as now by the Soviet host population as “Blacks.” Sahadeo argues that the “two capitals,” despite being closed cities, became critical to advancement strategies for citizens unionwide, inextricably binding Soviet periphery and center. Sahadeo explores how race emerged as an important factor in place making but argues that this can only be understood through its interplay with class, gender, professional status, and other categories of identity. Soviet “Blacks” externalized experiences of difference as they sought incorporation into host societies while maintaining links between their adopted and native homes. Place-making strategies led them to see Leningrad and Moscow, not as Russian-dominated cities, but as modern spaces of Soviet progress.

Influences from the Arabian Peninsula on the Revival of Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
Bayram Balci
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Diasporic Communities

Arabian Peninsula and Arab countries have always been linked to Muslims of Central Asia and the Caucasus. However, because of the Russian and Soviet parenthesis, the Islamic connections between these regions weakened. With the end of the Soviet Union, an Islamic cooperation started and took mainly two channels: pilgrimages (hajj) and diaspora. Although it was de facto impossible during the Soviet period, hajj has become a very important Islamic point of contact between Saudi Arabia and the post-Soviet sphere, contributing to the development of Salafism in the region. Meanwhile, Uzbek and Uighurs, the two Central Asian diasporic communities present in Saudi Arabia for several decades, have also contributed to the development of Islamic cooperation between the Arabian Peninsula and the new post-Soviet Republics.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eren Tasar
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Previous Scholarship

This introduction describes the main arguments and historiographical interventions undertaken in the present work. The majority of previous scholarship on Islam in Soviet Central Asia has treated the Communist anti-religious campaigns of the 1920s and 1930s as representative of the entire Soviet period. By contrast, this book argues that Stalin’s normalization of church-state relations in 1943–1944 allowed a permanent space for Islam to exist in Soviet society. This space rapidly became the site of an accommodation between Islam and Communism for many Central Asians. The introduction concludes with a discussion of the advantages and limitations of the sources employed throughout the book.

Commercial Linkages with Central Asia and Iran

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott C. Levi
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Indian Region ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Commercial System ◽  
Northern India

While it may seem counterintuitive, the increase in Mughal India’s maritime trade contributed to a tightening of overland commercial connections with its Asian neighbors. The primary agents in this process were “Multanis,” members of any number of heavily capitalized, caste-based family firms centered in the northwest Indian region of Multan. The Multani firms had earlier developed an integrated commercial system that extended across the Punjab, Sind, and much of northern India. In the middle of the sixteenth century, Multanis first appear in historical sources as having established their own communities in Central Asia and Iran. By the middle of the seventeenth century, at any given point in time, a rotating population of some 35,000 Indian merchants orchestrated a network of communities that extended across dozens, if not hundreds, of cities and villages in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Iran, stretching up the Caucasus and into Russia.

The Preparation of a Bio-Bibliographical Survey of Persian Literature

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Yu. E Borshchevsky ◽  
Yu. E. Bregel
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Late Development ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Iranian Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bibliographical Survey ◽  
Eastern Turkestan ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Source Materials

The history of literature in Persian has not been sufficiently studied although it is almost twelve centuries old, and was at times in widespread use in Afghanistan, Eastern Turkestan, India, Turkey and the Caucasus, as well as in Iran and Central Asia. The comparatively late development of Iranian studies and the condition of source materials are to blame for this situation.

scholarly journals At the Origins of Dagestan Philosophy and Islamic Studies (to the 90th anniversary of the birth and 70th anniversary of the scientific, pedagogical and social activities of M.A. Abdullaev)

Islamovedenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Kafarov Telman Emiralievich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
70Th Anniversary ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Academic Scientist ◽  
90Th Anniversary ◽  
Scientific Pedagogical

The article highlights some important philosophical and Islamic views and works of the famous Russian, Dagestani scientist Abdullaev Magomed Abdullayevich, in connection with his 90th anniversary of the birth and 70th anniversary of scientific, pedagogical and social activities. The author notes the importance and relevance of the problems raised in numerous monographs and articles, especially the specifics of Islam in the Caucasus and Dagestan, and the uniqueness of regional Sufism. Thanks to the works of Magomed Abdullayevich, the original views of doz-ens of thinkers representing the multinational Republic were preserved in historical memory. It is emphasized that he is not only an academic scientist, but also a publicist whose works on topical religious issues played a constructive role in particularly dramatic periods of the development of our country and our republic. Overcoming the stereotypes in assessing Islam that formed during the Soviet period of the county’s development, he shows that it is an integrating factor for the entire culture and life of Dagestanis.

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