Russia’s Muslim Frontiers: New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis

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Year: 1993
Pages: 206
Binding Paperback
ISBN 253208238

Product Code: 756753570

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Dale F. Eickelman (ed). In this collection of essays, Russian, Central Asian, & American scholars assess the relative strengths & weaknesses of their respective past & present approaches to understanding political & religious developments in the Muslim world. Discusses: U.S. & Soviet conduct in the Middle East after World War II; the endurance of supposedly suppressed or obliterated religious & national identities in the Cental Asian nations; the Soviet Union’s failed attempt to establish secular socialist rule in Afghanistan; tribe & national identities among the Bakhtiyari & Kurds of Iran; the Islamization of Pakistan; & a call for new directions in the cross-cultural analysis of politics & religion in Muslim states.

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