Islam Critical Scholars - Soviet Orientalist Studies in Islam, Robert Spencer, Sr a Trifkovi, Leone Caetani, Miroljub Jevti, Ibn Kammuna (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Soviet Orientalist Studies in Islam, Robert Spencer, Sr a Trifkovi, Leone Caetani, Miroljub Jevti, Ibn Kammuna, Imad Ud-Din Lahiz, Henri Lammens. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam are academic discourses by Soviet Marxist theoreticians about Islam, its origins and development based on Historical materialism and Muslims. The central question of this discourse was how Muslim society would fit into the general development of human history. Prominent Soviet orientalists include Mikhail A. Reisner, Evgenii Beliaev, Liutsian I. Klimovich, Mikhail L. Tomara, V. Ditiakin and Sandzhar D. Asfendiarov. The October Revolution brought the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to power. The Soviet Union had a large Muslim population of various ethnicities. Therefore, there was a pressing need for original research as Marx, Engels only dealt with the subject superficially. In the 1920s, the Bolsheviks created new institutions and organizations intended to produce devoted Marxist scholars of Oriental studies. Foremost among them was the Moscow Institute for Oriental Studies, a party school created in 1920 mainly for the requirements of the Soviet foreign service. Its counterpart for educating party workers and administrators from the Eastern regions and republics of Russia and the USSR, as well as for training communists from abroad, was the Communist University of the Toilers of the Orient, a school founded in 1921. The new Marxist discourse on Islam was dominated by scholars from these political teaching and research institutions. In 1923, Zinatullah Navshirvanov (a Volga Tatar communist who was also active in the formation of a communist party in Ataturks new Republic of Turkey) in the journal Novyi Vostok proposed that the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25721647