Review (in French) of S.M. Prozorov’s Islam na territorii byvshei Rossiiskoi imperii : entsiklopedicheskii slovar [Islam in the Territories of the Former Russian Empire: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary], vol. 2 (2018).
Stéphane A. Dudoignon reviews Benjamin Gatling’s Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan (2018).
‘A Surrogate Aristocracy? Sufi Adab, Modernity, Rurality and Civilisation in Ex-Soviet Central Asia’, in C. Mayeur-Jaouen, ed., Adab and Modernity: A ‘Civilising Process’?, Leiden: Brill (Islamic Literatures: Texts and Studies), 2020, pp. 527–51, ill.
Dudoignon, Stéphane A., ‘Fragments de Gnose Musulmane Soviétique: Quelques Ghazals du Dīwān de Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Dawlat Īlākī (1881-1947)’ [Fragments of Soviet Muslim Gnosis: Some Ghazals by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Dawlat Īlākī (1881-1947)], Journal...
Dudoignon, Stéphane A., ‘Holy Virgin Lands? Demographic Engineering, Heritage Management, and the Sanctification of Territories in ex-Soviet Central Asia, since WWII’, in E. Tasar, J. Eden, A. J. Frank, ed., The Khans’ Oven: Studies...
Frank, Allen J., ‘Companions of the Prophet as Anti-Colonial Fighters: The Political Evolution of ʿAlī Tales in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe’, Die Welt des Islams (2021), pp. 1-19 Tales about the Caliph ʿAlī...
The period following the collapse of the Soviet Union can in many respects be viewed as a golden age for the composition and circulation of Islamic hagiographies. While as a compositional genre hagiography above...
Studia Islamica 116 (2021), pp. 393-423 Résumé « La visite pieuse aux tombeaux des saints. Étude ethnographique en milieu soufi chinois (Gansu, 1901-2019) » La visite pieuse aux tombeaux des saints est une pratique largement répandue...
Many participants in the RedGold ANR Project are specialists of written materials, even if some deny it. We sometimes underestimate oral history and cultural memory in the study of modern hagiographic experiences. When RedGold...
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