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Russia's Muslim Frontiers Dale F. Eickelman

Russia's Muslim Frontiers By Dale F. Eickelman

Russia's Muslim Frontiers by Dale F. Eickelman

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Summary

Features Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars who assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of their respective past and present approaches to understanding political and religious developments in the Muslim world. This title also offers perspectives on Soviet Union's failed attempt to establish secular socialist rule in Afghanistan.

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Russia's Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis by Dale F. Eickelman

"Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: the differing approaches of the U.S. and the [former] Soviet Union to Middle East policy, Central Asia, and South Asia . . . provide grounds for self-criticism and the exploration of new directions." -John L. Esposito

". . . recommended highly for its expert analyses of political Islam." -Journal of Third World Studies

Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars appraise recent political and religious developments among Russia's Muslim neighbors.

Russia's Muslim Frontiers Reviews

"Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: the differing approaches of the U.S. and the [former] Soviet Union to Middle East policy, Central Asia, and South Asia ... provide grounds for self-criticism and the exploration of new directions." John L. Esposito

Table of Contents

Preface
Note on Transliteration

Introduction: The Other orientalist Crisis
Dale F. Eickelman

Part I: International and Regional Perspectives

I. United States Middle East Policy in the Cold War Era
Richard W. Cottam
II. Soviet Policy in Middle East: A Practitioner's Interpretation
Georgy M. Korniyenko

Part II: Central Asia
III. Central Asia's Political Crisis
Martha Brill Olcott
IV. Islam versus Communism: The Experience of Coexistence
Alexei V. Malashenko
V. Islamic Revivalism In Uzbekistan
Abdujabar Abduvakhitov

Part III: Afghanistan and Iran
VI. The Afghan Revolution: A Failed Experiment
Victor G. Korgun
VII. Words in the Balance: The Poetics of Political Dissent in Afghanistan
David B. Edwards
VIII. Reimagined Internal Frontiers: Tribes and Nationalism-Bakhtiyari and Kurds
Gene R. Garthwaite

Part IV: Pakistan
IX. Islam and the State in Pakistan
Vyacheslav Ya. Belokrenitsky
X. The Islamization of Welfare in Pakistan
Dimitri B. Novossyolov
XI. Islamization in Pakistan: The Sayyid and the Dancer
Richard Kurin

Conclusion: The Limits of Expert Knowledge
Muhammad Khalid Masud

Notes of Contributors
Index

Additional information

CIN0253208238G
9780253208231
0253208238
Russia's Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis by Dale F. Eickelman
Dale F. Eickelman
Arab and Islamic Studies
Used - Good
Paperback
Indiana University Press
1993-06-01
206
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