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ISBN 978-3-87997-421-4

Allah's Kolkhozes

Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation, and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s-2000s)

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The larger part of the Muslim popu­la­tion in the Soviet realm lived and conti­nues to live in rural areas. Other than in many parts of the present-day world of Islam, alter­na­tive, self-segre­gated, often anti-estab­lish­ment Muslim cong­re­ga­tions emerged outside the big urban agglo­me­ra­tions of the former USSR. Among other factors of this emer­gence can be mentioned: the mass resett­le­ments operated from the 1940s to the 1970s towards cash-crop growing lowlands; the tight limi­ta­tion on the drift from the land by the Soviet autho­ritie...

ISBN 978-3-87997-425-2

Selected Manchu Studies

Contributions to History, Literature, and Shamanism of the Manchus

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Giovanni Stary is an outstan­ding specia­list in Manchu Studies. Till his recent reti­re­ment he held the chair of Manchu at the Univer­sity of Venice (Italy). Stary covered many fields, espe­cially lite­ra­ture, shama­nism, history. He convinced scho­lars that Manchu was not just a dead language but had merits of its own and deserved to be recog­nized as an inde­pen­dent disci­p­line. Besides focu­sing on the early history of the Manchus and Manchu indi­ge­nous lite­ra­ture, he disco­vered the lite­ra­ture of the Sibe, Manchus in Xinjiang’s Ili...

ISBN 978-3-87997-428-3

Turkish Religious Texts in Latin Script from 18th Century South-Eastern Anatolia

Transcriptions, Translations, and a Study of the Language

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The manu­script no 35 of the Manu­script Collec­tion of the John Rylands Library in Manchester contains a Turkish text in Latin script from the Diyar­bakır region dated 1768. The text repres­ents verses from the Gospels and Old Testa­ment, reli­gious teachings and quota­tions. The Turkish-language tran­scrip­tion takes up 32 folios. The author, Father Gery Desiré, remains a mystery. The Archives of the Capucin Friars in Paris do not seem to hold any mention of missionary acti­vi­ties in eastern Anatolia during the 18th century. A commen...

ISBN 978-3-87997-409-2

Unknown Treasures of the Altaic World in Libraries, Archives and Museums

53rd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS, St. Petersburg, July 25-30, 2010

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This volume contains a collec­tion of revised lectures deli­vered at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Perma­nent Inter­na­tional Altaistic Confe­rence (PIAC) in St. Peters­burg in July 2010, which attracted more than 100 scho­lars from around the world. The Insti­tute of Oriental Manu­scripts and the Hermi­tage, the co-hosts of the gathe­ring, hold profes­sional lite­ra­ture and arte­facts of inestimable value - much of which is still rela­ti­vely unknown to Orien­ta­lists - and this explains the large turnout. The presen­ta­tions, some of which tr...