Russian Oriental Studies

Current Research on Past & Present Asian and African Societies
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13203-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

This collection of articles by leading Russian Orientalists, from different universities and research institutes of Russia, covers a wide range of research fields: politics and power, history, economics and society, language, philosophy and culture.
The Russian authors base their works on rare sources. They examine here ancient and medieval history and culture of Oriental societies including articles on Indian mythology, kalam in Islam, classical Indonesian concepts of monarchy, Caucasus in the Abbasid period etc. There will also be a focus on modern Asian and African societies with articles on agriculture in India, monarchy in Cambodia, kleptocracy in Africa, Chinese migration to Siberia etc.). Furthermore in this volume, cultural vocabularies and sacred texts will be analysed.
The volume will be useful for all academics and students interested in Asia and Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naumkin, Vitaly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part One: Politics and Power
Nadezhda Bektimirova, Monarchy in the Khmer Political Culture
Leonid V. Geveling, A Shadow of Kleptocracy over Africa (A Theory of Negative Forms of Power Organization)
Part Two: History
Alikber Alikberov, Islamic Frontiers in the Caucasus during the ‘Abbasid period
Gennadi G. Bandilenko, The Religious and Ideological Conception of Monarchical Power as an Object of Systematic Description (Concerning the Study of Nusantara Monarchies, the Seventh to Fifteenth Century A.D.)
Irina M. Smilyanskaya, On the Origins of Catherine II’s Mediterranean Policy
Part Three: Economics and Society
Vladimir I. Dyatlov, The Chinese Migration to Siberia and the Beginning of the Formation of a New Diaspora
Victor G. Rastyannikov, Agricultural Growth in India. Some Burning Issues Towards the End of the Twentieth Century
Part Four: Language
Anna V. Dybo, On the History of Traditional Anthropometric Terms: Qarï and other Central Asian Linear Measures
S.A. Starostin, The Cultural Vocabulary in the Common North Caucasian Lexical Stock
Part Five: Philosophy and Culture
Tawfik Ibrahim, On Kalam Atomism and its Role in Islamic Culture
Dmitry V. Frolov, The Notion of Stone in the Book of Genesis
Vladimir N. Toporov, Indra the Ant: A Comparative Commentary on a Motive of Ancient Indian Mythology
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vitaly Naumkin, Ph.D. in History (1972), is Professor of Moscow State University (in 2003 - University of California, Berkeley), Director of the Centre for Arab Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of Vostok-Oriens (Russian Academy of Sciences). He has published extensively on the Middle East, Islam and Central Asia.