Russian Oriental Studies : Current Research on Past & Present Asian and African Societies /

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 sourc...

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Main Author: Naumkin, Vitaly (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.

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505 0 |a 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 Kalām 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. 
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