The Caucasus States

2019 ◽  
pp. 264-316
Author(s):  
Katherine Graney
Keyword(s):  
Security Policy ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Unique Region

This chapter examines the Caucasus states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. It first discusses the Caucasus as a unique region within the Russian and Soviet empires, seen as those entities’ “own Orient,” and the place where the border into the “non-Christian” world is breached. Georgia’s strong desire for Europeanization is contrasted with Armenia’s more moderate pursuit, despite the two sharing similar levels of “intrinsic” Europeanization. Georgia’s peculiarly Euro-oriented elite, and Armenia’s historical and contemporary reliance on Russia as a protector of its survival and sovereignty, are invoked to explain this difference. Azerbaijan, a resource-rich state with the unique claim to be “the first democracy in the Muslim World,” has combined a nonaligned political and security policy with a strong effort to be identified as part of the European cultural-civilizational sphere.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bayram Balci
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Religious Influences ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Way

Some twenty-five years after the end of the USSR, the time has come to take stock of the changes in the countries and societies that emerged from that multi-ethnic, multi-confessional state. Here we shall be examining the development of Islam in two parts of the region: Central Asia and the Caucasus. At certain points in its history, the Soviet Union projected itself as a Muslim power, and contemporary Russia boasts several million practising Muslims whom it places at the centre of its policy of rapprochement with the Muslim world. The so-called ‘Muslim’ countries that emerged from the Soviet Union—i.e. the republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, which possess a predominantly Muslim population and heritage—are also affirming a new relationship with Islam. And, whether they like it or not, as sovereign subjects on the international scene they are interacting in a new way with various countries from which they import or experience religious influences. Thus, the initial premise of the present work is that from 1991 onwards the Caucasus and Central Asia joined in the globalization of religion. Consequently, in order to understand changes in Islam there, we need to examine the way in which its states have dealt with various foreign influences and the conduct of public policy on religion in the light of such influences. The latter derive from countries which, prior to Russian conquest and Soviet domination, were in contact with Central Asia and the Caucasus. ...

Composition of the Petroleum of the Caucasus

1881 ◽  
Vol 12 (288supp) ◽  
pp. 4589-4589
Author(s):  
MM. P. Schutzenberger ◽  
N. Toniner
Keyword(s):  
The Caucasus

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

How Alexander entered India With a note on Ortospana (the ancient name of Ghazni?)

Afghanistan ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Rapin ◽  
Frantz Grenet
Keyword(s):  
The Caucasus ◽  
Kabul River

This paper concerns the cartography of Afghanistan in antiquity using the example of Ortospana, a toponym that is presumably a corruption of *Oryospana, the ancient name of Ghazni. In order to cover all the hypotheses involved in this study, the itinerary of Alexander will also be revisited from southern and northern Afghanistan to Taxila through the crossroads of Alexandria in the Caucasus and along the Kabul River.

The Medieval Population of Mountainous Ingushetia According to Odontological Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-196
Author(s):  
Natalya A. Lejbova ◽  
Umalat B. Gadiev
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Dental Anthropology ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Village ◽  
Medieval Population

Although population of the Caucasus has been studied in a rather detailed way, there are peoples whose anthropological portrait is still incomplete. Among them are the Ingush, one of the oldest autochthonous peoples of the Caucasus. This work presents new material on the dental anthropology of medieval Ingush, collected in 2017 during expeditions to the Jairakh and Sunzhen districts of the Republic of Ingushetia. In the Jairakh district, the investigations were carried out in the crypt complexes of the 15th–18th centuries – Targim, Agikal, Tsori, Salgi, and in Sunzhen region - in crypts near the village of Muzgan. The craniological series of medieval Ingush studied according to the dental anthropology program can be described as belonging to the western range of odontological complexes. Unlike most modern Caucasian groups, it does not belong to gracile forms, but rather to a maturized odontological variant, which has deep roots in the Caucasus. The results once again demonstrate a certain conservatism and stability of the dental system, which preserves morphological traits of ancestral groups longer than other anthropological systems.

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