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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Language: English
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Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2004.
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Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
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Call Number: DS12
Table of Contents:
- 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.