[Discussion] PUBL.- Stephane Dudoignon, ed., Devout Societies vs. Impious States?

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PUBL.- Stephane Dudoignon, ed., Devout Societies vs. Impious States?

The Research Team ESA 7043 ("Cultures et societes en Europe") of the CNRS,
Strasbourg, is glad to announce the publication of:

Devout Societies vs. Impious States? Transmitting Islamic Learning in
Russia, Central Asia and China, through the Twentieth Century
edited by Stephane A. Dudoignon

Klaus Schwarz Verlag, Berlin (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen: 258)

ISBN 3-87997-314-8, 292 pages, 45 euros

Description:

Fifteen years after the fall of the Wall, the need of new approaches and
paradigms is still to be felt in Northern Eurasian studies, which continue
to be dominated by Hegelian philosophies of the political struggle, focused
on an inevitable confrontation between modern societies and states. A
consequence of this is the lasting postulate that, since the end of the 
Cold
War, Islamicate societies and minorities from the Balkans to mainland China
are bound to triumph over "alienation" and to return to a pre-Communist
"authenticity", in a spirit of permanent confrontation with the hegemonic
cultural systems built up during the twentieth century.

This most common opinion has been revisited in the present volume, in the
light of the complex typology of relations between, on the first hand,
various segments of Northern Eurasian Islamicate societies and minorities,
and on the other hand the imperial then Communist states which have been
dominating this immense region of the world during the long twentieth
century. The question has been treated through the evolutions that can now
be observed in the transmission of Islamic learning and authority in 
Russia,
Central Asia and China throughout this period - the theme of a colloquium
held in November 2001 in Paris (Carre des Sciences, French Ministry of
Research) by the Research Team ESA 7043 of the Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique.

Table of Contents:

I. "High" and "Popular" Culture

UYAMA Tomohiko:
"Devotion to the People" and Paternalistic Authoritarianism among Qazaq
Intellectuals, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1917

Rafyq MOHAMMATSHIN:
The Tatar Intelligentsia and the Clergy, 1917-1937

Bakhtiyar BABADJANOV:
Debates over Islam in Contemporary Uzbekistan: A View from Within

Leila CHERIF-CHEBBI:
Brothers and Comrades: Muslim Fundamentalists and Communists Allied for the
Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in China

Elisabeth ALLES:
Chinese Muslim Women: From Autonomy to Dependence

Constance-Helene HALFON-MICHEL:

> From Oral to Written Culture: an Example from the Hui of China


II. History and Memory

Adeeb KHALID:
Nation into History: The Origins of National Historiography in Central Asia

Damir IS'HAQOV:
Through the Textbooks. The Academic Intelligentsia and the Shaping of a
Tatar National Consciousness (1940s to 1990s)

Bruce G. PRIVRATSKY:
"Turkestan Belongs to the Qojas": Local Knowledge of a Muslim Tradition

Stephane A. DUDOIGNON:
Local Lore, the Transmission of Learning, and Communal Identity in Late
20th-Century Tajikistan. The Khujand-Nama of 'Arifjan Yahyazad Khujandi

Sabine TREBINJAC:
Le savoir musical des Ouighours : et s'il s'agissait d'ambivalence de la
memoire ?

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