The heritage of Soviet Oriental studies
By: edited by Michael Kemper and Stephan Conermann
Series: Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series -- 25
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415599771; 9780203832752
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : the heritage of Soviet Oriental studies / Stephan Conermann; title: Introduction : integrating Soviet Oriental studies / Michael Kemper; title: The imperial roots of Soviet Orientology / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye; title: Profiles under pressure : Orientalists in Petrograd/Leningrad, 1918-56 / Mikhail Rodionov; title: Between the "language of humanity" and latinizatsiia : Nikolai Marr and the Oriental Department of the State Public Library in Leningrad / Aleksei Asvaturov; title: The contribution of Oriental scholarship to the Soviet anti-Islamic discourse : from the Union of Militant Atheists to the Knowledge Society / Vladimir Bobrovnikov; title: Soviet Kurdology and Kurdish Orientalism / Michiel Leezenberg; title: Evgenii M. Primakov : Arabist and KGB middleman, director and statesman / Mikhail Roshchin; title: The Leningrad/St. Petersburg School of Scientific Islamology / Stanislav M. Prozorov; title: Hijacking Islam : the search for a new Soviet interpretation of political Islam in 1980 / Hanna E. Jansen and Michael Kemper; title: Scholars, advisers and state-builders : Soviet Afghan studies in the light of present-day Afghan development / Anna R. Paterson; title: The struggle for the reestablishment of Oriental studies in twentieth-century Kazan / Mirkasym A. Usmanov; title: Arabic historical studies in twentieth-century Daghestan / Amri R. Shikhsaidov; title: The politics of scholarship and the scholarship of politics : imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet scholars studying Tajikistan / Lisa Yountchi; title: Conceiving a people's history : the 1920-1936 discourse on the Kazakh past / Zifa-Alua Auezova; title: Ahmad Yasavi and the Divan i hikmat in Soviet scholarship / Devin DeWeese; title: Kyrgyz "Muslim-Central Asian" : recent approaches to the study of Kyrgyz culture in Kyrgyzstan / Till Mostowlansky; title: The transformation of Azerbaijani Orientalists into Islamic thinkers after 1991 / Altay Goyushov, Naomi Caffee and Robert Denis.