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Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia (19th - Early 20th Century)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia (19th - Early 20th Century)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Post-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history. Most of this scholarship rests on a set of assumptions about traditional institutions and social practices which merely reflect the bias of Soviet or even Tsarist-era historiography. 'Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia addresses the need for a remedy to this state of affairs and thus offers new insights on a number of subjects relating to the social history of the region. It includes essays dealing with property relations, resource management, forms of local administration, the constitution of new social groups, the construction of identity categories, and an enquiry into the landscape of Islamic practices among the nomads.

Visions of Justice: Shar A and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Visions of Justice: Shar A and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia

  • Categories: Law

This title is available in its entirety in Open Access In Visions of Justice Paolo Sartori surveys the role of Russian colonialism in affecting the way in which Muslims in Central Asia formulated their convictions about right and wrong and became exposed to different notions of morality.

Humanistica Lovaniensia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

Humanistica Lovaniensia

Volume 52

Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-21
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume features 11 essays that explore the issue of religious authority among Muslim communities of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet worlds of Russia, the North Caucasus, the Volga-Ural region, and Central Asia.

Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 656

Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes

Some manuscripts have been produced for the personal use of their scribe only; whereas a number of them are valued as autographs, most have been ephemeral and were discarded. Personal manuscripts were not written for a patron, commissioner, or client. They are personal copies, anthologies, florilegia, personal notes, excerpts, drafts and notebooks, as well as family books, accountancy notebooks and many others; these forms often being mixed with one another. This volume introduces a number of such manuscripts in a comparative perspective, from Japan to Europe through the Middle East, with a focus on the Near and Middle East. The main concern is the possibility of identifying typical features of such manuscripts in terms of materials, visual organization and content. In attempting this, both the conditions of production and traces of the manuscripts’ use are taken into consideration, with particular attention to their material aspects.

Soviet and Muslim
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Soviet and Muslim

World War II and Islamically informed Soviet patriotism -- Institutionalizing Soviet Islam, 1944-1958 -- SADUM's new ambitions, 1943-1958 -- The anti-religious campaign, 1959-1964 -- The muftiate on the international stage -- The Brezhnev Era and its aftermath, 1965-1989

The Oxford Companion to Cheese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 894

The Oxford Companion to Cheese

Winner of the 2017 James Beard Award for Reference & Scholarship The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients - milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes - into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes, sizes, and colors, and equally complex and varied tastes, textures, and, yes, aromas. In fact, after a long period of industrialized, processed, and standardized cheese, cheesemakers, cheesemongers, affineurs, and most of all consumers are rediscovering the endless variety of cheeses across cultures. The Oxford Companio...

Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-06-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori and Abdurasulov show that in Khorezm prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice according to Islamic law depended mostly on a group of officials representing the dynasty in power, and lacking specialised legal training.

Lezioni di fisica generale 2
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 428

Lezioni di fisica generale 2

Il corso presentato è costituito dalle copie delle diapositive proposte in formato Power Point nel corso di Fisica Generale 2, Campi e Onde, per gli studenti di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, corso di laurea formativo dell’Università di Padova. Il testo è frutto del lavoro decennale svolto dal prof. Paolo Sartori nei corsi erogati nell’ordinamento in vigore prima della riforma 509 per Ingegneria Gestionale e successivamente in videoconferenza per la laurea in Ingegneria Informatica e Biomedica. Scopo principale di quest’opera è quello di interpretare le difficoltà degli studenti nell’apprendere la materia e di renderla maggiormente accessibile e fruibile. Le slide, stampate in ...

‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 411

‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia

The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural ‘survivals’ from the late 19th-century theories of E.B. Tylor, James Frazer, and others, in debate with monotheistic ‘degenerationists’ and Protestant anti-Catholic polemicists, back to its origins in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions as well as later more secularized forms in the German Enlightenment and Romanticist movements. These historical sources, particularly the ‘dual faith’ tradition of Russian Orthodoxy, significantly shaped both Tsarist and later Soviet ethnography of Muslim Central Asia, helping guide and justify their respective religious missionary, social-legal, political and other imperial agendas. T...