Russian-Arab Worlds - A Documentary History (Hardcover)

The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer's diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated contemporary Syrian novelist, and many more. These archival, autobiographical, and literary sources, all appearing in English for the first time, are introduced by specialists and in some cases by pairs of scholars with complementary language expertise. They highlight connections long obscured by disciplinary cleavages between Slavic and Middle East studies. Taken together, the thirty-four chapters of this book show how various Russian/Soviet and Arab governments sought to nurture political and cultural ties and expand their influence, often with unplanned results. They reveal the transnational networks of trade, pilgrimage, study, ethnic identity, and political affinity that state policies sometimes fostered and sometimes disrupted. Above all they give voice to some of the resourceful characters who have embodied and exploited Arab-Russian contacts: missionaries and diplomats, soldiers and refugees, students and party activists, scholars, and spies. A set of specially commissioned maps helps orient readers amid the expansion and collapse of empires, border changes, population transfers, and creation of new nation-states that occurred during the two centuries these sources cover.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2023
Editors:	Eileen Kane (Professor of History) • Masha Kirasirova (Assistant Professor of History) • Margaret Litvin (Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature)
Dimensions:	235 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-760576-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-19-760576-1
Barcode:	9780197605769

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