Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415478790 ISBN 13: 9780415478793

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors offer a complete commentary on the various intellectual and religious contexts that shaped the two texts and explain the historical significance of the Russian-Muslim confrontation. It is shown that the mountain war was a clash of two cultures, two religious outlooks and two different worlds. The book provides an important background for the ongoing contest between Russia and indigenous people for control of the Caucasus.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Sanders is Associate Professor of Russian History at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Ernest Tucker is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Gary Hamburg is Professor of Russian History, University of Notre Dame, US, specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of imperial Russia.

Review:

This work will be especially useful in the classroom. Hamburg uses his commentary to address the implications of these alternative visions of similar events and experiences for the history of Christian-Muslim relations and colonial conflict..
–Slavic Review, Winter 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0415478790
• ISBN 13: 9780415478793
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Hamburg Gary