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Over the past 20 years, numerous scholars have called upon social scientists to consider the colonial contexts within which sociology, anthropology and ethnology were institutionalised in Europe and beyond. We explain how historical sociologists and historians of international law, sociology and anthropology can develop a global intellectual history of what we call the ‘sciences of the international’ by paying attention to the political ideas of the Durkheimian school of sociology. We situate the political ideas of the central figures explored in this special issue—Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Bronisław Malinowski and Alfred Métraux—in their broader context, analysing their convergence and differences. We also reinterpret the calls made by historians of ideas to ‘provincialise Europe’ or move to a ‘global history’, by studying how epistemologies and political imaginaries continued by sociologists and ethnologists after the colonial era related to imperialist ways of thinking.

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Ousmane Oumar Kane. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. ix + 282 pp. Note on Transliteration. Notes. Glossary. Acknowledgments. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-674-05082-2. - Lamin Sanneh. Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition of West African Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Timeline. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii + 358 pp. $34.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-19-935161-9.

African Studies Review ◽

10.1017/asr.2017.32 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 228-232

Author(s):

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

West Africa ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Harvard University ◽

West African ◽

Oxford University ◽

History Of ◽

Oxford University Press

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Muscovy and the Tatars

Canadian-American Slavic Studies ◽

10.30965/22102396-05404002 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

pp. 403-431

Author(s):

Bulat R. Rakhimzianov

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Social Institutions ◽

The Political ◽

East European ◽

Central Eurasia ◽

History Of ◽

Mutual Relations ◽

Forest Line ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This article explores relations between Muscovy and the so-called Later Golden Horde successor states that existed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries on the territory of Desht-i Qipchaq (the Qipchaq Steppe, a part of the East European steppe bounded roughly by the Oskol and Tobol rivers, the steppe-forest line, and the Caspian and Aral Seas). As a part of, and later a successor to, the Juchid ulus (also known as the Golden Horde), Muscovy adopted a number of its political and social institutions. The most crucial events in the almost six-century-long history of relations between Muscovy and the Tatars (13–18th centuries) were the Mongol invasion of the Northern, Eastern and parts of the Southern Rus’ principalities between 1237 and 1241, and the Muscovite annexation of the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates between 1552 and 1556. According to the model proposed here, the Tatars began as the dominant partner in these mutual relations; however, from the beginning of the seventeenth century this role was gradually inverted. Indicators of a change in the relationship between the Muscovite grand principality and the Golden Horde can be found in the diplomatic contacts between Muscovy and the Tatar khanates. The main goal of the article is to reveal the changing position of Muscovy within the system of the Later Golden Horde successor states. An additional goal is to revisit the role of the Tatar khanates in the political history of Central Eurasia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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