3/2018 The Ambiguities of Hybridity

3/2018

Forum AI
Paolo Sartori, Visions of Justice: Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016). 392 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-33090-0.

Bakhtiyar Babajanov

Muslim’s Juridical Field in Imperial Turkestan: Cultural Transfer or Adaptation?

3/2018

Forum AI
Paolo Sartori, Visions of Justice: Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016). 392 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-33090-0.

Sergei Abashin

A Different History of “Russian Turkestan”?

3/2018

Forum AI
Paolo Sartori, Visions of Justice: Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016). 392 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-33090-0.

Book Reviews

Anna Nemirovskaya

Boris Mironov, The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700–1917, ed. Gregory L. Freeze (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012). 668 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-60854-1.

3/2018

Николай Промыслов, Nikolay Promyslov

Вадим Ададуров. Война цивилизаций: Социокультурная история русского похода Наполеона. Т. 1: Религия – Язык. Киев: Лаурус, 2017. 400 с. Источники и литература. Именной указатель. Географический указатель. ISBN: 978-617-7313-16-7.

3/2018

Lucien J. Frary

Evrydiki Sifneos, Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities (Leiden: Brill, 2018). 286 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Places. Index of Subjects. ISBN: 978-90-04-31360-6.

3/2018

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Our Authors

3/2018

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Issue 3/2018 The Ambiguities of Hybridity

Methodology and Theory

The Ambiguities of Hybridity

The Ambiguity of Federalism as a Postimperial Political Vision: Editorial Introduction

Introduction: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire

Anticolonialism and Federation in Colonial India

Sovereignty and the End of Empire: The Transition to Independence in Colonial Hyderabad

Securing Postcolonial Independence: Kwame Nkrumah and the Federal Idea in the Age of Decolonization

History

Neotraditionalist Rule to the Rescue of the Empire? Viceroy I. Vorontsov-Dashkov amid Crises in the Caucasus, 1905–1915

Conflict as a Resource: The Anatomy of the “Turkmen Unrest” in Khwarazm, 1914–1916

Hybridity and Coherence of Kazakhs’ Legal Practices: The Aqsaqal Courts in the System of Legal Institutions and Practices (Second Half of the Nineteenth Century–Early Twentieth Century)

Archive

A “Thief-Turned- Sleuth” Vanka Kain: The Anatomy of a “Hybrid”

Documents Characterizing the Evolving Status of the “Informer” and “Sleuth” Vanka Kain (1741–1749)

Newest Mythologies

Soviet Death and Hybrid Soviet Subjectivity: Urban Cemetery as a Metatext

Historiography

Subjectivity and Diversity: Rethinking the Legal History of Central Asia

Muslim’s Juridical Field in Imperial Turkestan: Cultural Transfer or Adaptation?

A Different History of “Russian Turkestan”?

Book Reviews

Boris Mironov, The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Russia, 1700–1917, ed. Gregory L. Freeze (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012). 668 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-60854-1.

Evrydiki Sifneos, Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities (Leiden: Brill, 2018). 286 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Places. Index of Subjects. ISBN: 978-90-04-31360-6.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

The Origins of the Soviet Discourse about “Good Islam” in Central Asia

“The Archives Talk” – Paolo Sartori’s Contribution to the History of Central Asia

¡Viva la filología! Or, The Freedom of Critical Thinking

Moritz Deutschmann, Iran and Russian Imperialism: The Ideal Anarchists, 1800–1914 (London and New York: Routledge, 2016). xii, 221 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-1-138-93701-7.

Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017). 1104 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-691-17694-9.

Marlene Laruelle (Ed.), Being Muslim in Central Asia: Practices, Politics, and Identities (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018). 327 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-90-04-30680-6.

Yulia Gradskova and Sara Sanders (Eds.), Institutionalizing Gender Equality. Historical and Global Perspectives (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015). 272 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-4985-1674-7.

Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017). 145 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-1-5095-1212-6.