Russina Oriental Studies

by Naumkin, Vitaly

• ISBN13: 9789004132030
• ISBN10: 9004132031
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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 sources. They examine here ancient and medieval history and culture of Oriental societies including articles on Indian mythology, kalam in Islam, classical Indonesian concepts of monarchy, Caucasus in the Abbasid period etc. There will also be a focus on modern Asian and African societies with articles on agriculture in India, monarchy in Cambodia, kleptocracy in Africa, Chinese migration to Siberia etc.). Furthermore in this volume, cultural vocabularies and sacred texts will be analysed.The volume will be useful for all academics and students interested in Asia and Africa.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART ONE POLITICS AND POWER
Monarchy in the Khmer Political Culture	3	(20)
Nadezhda Bektimirova
A Shadow of Kleptocracy over Africa (A Theory of Negative Forms of Power Organization)	23	(36)
Leonid V. Leveling
PART TWO HISTORY
Islamic Frontiers in the Caucasus during the 'Abbasid Period	59	(14)
Alikber Alikberov
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.)	73	(24)
Gennadi G. Bandilenkot
On the Origins of Catherine II's Mediterranean Policy	97	(26)
Irina M. Smilyanskaya
PART THREE ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY
The Chinese Migration to Siberia and the Beginning of the Formation of a New Diaspora	123	(40)
Vladimir I. Dyatlov
Agricultural Growth in India. Some Burning Issues Towards the End of the Twentieth Century	163	(32)
Victor G. Rastyannikov
PART FOUR LANGUAGE
On the History of Traditional Anthropometric Terms: Qarï and Other Central Asian Linear Measures	195	(16)
Anna V. Dybo
The Cultural Vocabulary in the Common North Caucasian Lexical Stock	211	(34)
S.A. Starostin
PART FIVE PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
On Kalam Atomism and its Role in Islamic Culture	245	(18)
Tawfik Ibrahim
The Notion of Stone in the Book of Genesis	263	(8)
Dmitry V. Frolov
Indra the Ant: Comparative Commentary on a Motive of Ancient Indian Mythology	271	(24)
Vladimir N Toporou
Index	295