Vladimir Bobrovnikov
Biographic Data
| ID | 107233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vladimir Bobrovnikov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Bobrovnikov |
| SIGNATURE | BOBROVNIKOV V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Oriental Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1444-7722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Highlanders’ Sources in Oriental Languages about the Caucasus War
Entangled Narratives of the Changing Muslim Hagiography
From Muslim Chronicles to National Historiographies? (The Conceptual Introduction)
The formation of national Muslim historiographies is still understudied in the context of inter-imperial transfers of knowledge in the era of the creation of national republics on the ruins of colonial empires. Meanwhile, its investigation sheds light on a number of key historical subjects of nation-building in nationalizing empires, hybriditization of Muslim historiography, subjectivity of Islamic historical knowledge. Based on the materials of …
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
"Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Journey to the "Other World
Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Dar on dunyo ("In the other world"), first published in Tajik in 1965 and later translated to Russian, Uzbek, and many other languages, is the only known fictionalized account of the ḥajj produced in the Soviet Union. Based on a trip made by the author in 1963, the novel provided the Soviet reader a rare glimpse into this sacred rite. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary responses, and the text itself, this article tr…
‘Ali al-Ghumuqi (Kayaev) as the Historian of Caucasus’ Muslim Peoples
The paper is an attempt at writing of the new conceptual biography of a renowned Muslim reformist leader in late tsarist and early Soviet Caucasus. After ‘Ali al- Ghumuqi more known under the name of Kayaev (1878–1943) from the Dagestani village of Ghumuq fell the victim of the Stalinist political repressions and then was gradually rehabilitated, historians often presented him a leftist journalist and politician close to the Bolsheviks, sometimes…
Legal Vocabulary of Arabic-Speaking ‘adat Monuments in 14th-20th Century Dagestan (Some Results of the Study of Islamic Discourses)
The article is an attempt at a concise historical-legal dictionary of legal custom or ‘adat practiced by Muslim highlanders in the North-East Caucasus in the 14th-20th centuries. It contains 107 dictionary and phraseology units gathered in documents, normative and narrative sources including inscriptions. They share characteristic inaccuracies in Arabic morphology and peculiar semantics. The author argues that it was the result of cultural transl…
In memoriam. Amri Rzaevich Shikhsaidov (20 March 1928–21 September 2019)
Paradoxes in the Study of Contemporary Islam in Russia
Applied Oriental Studies of Russia’s Own Islam
Dagestan in transnational Sufi Networks
This case-study relates to the history of shared transnational Sufi networks. The Naqshbandiyya-Halidiya brotherhood of the Ottoman origin once moved from the Middle East to Russia's borderlands in the Eastern Caucasus and then came back to the Ottoman Empire from the North Caucasus. Dagestani Sufi networks and holy places represent a specific kind of interactions between the Muslim elites in the Middle East, the North Caucasus, the Volga-Ural re…
Dmitriy Yur’evich Arapov (1943–2015)
Arapov was one of Russia's major experts on the history of Islam in the Soviet Union
Ordinary Wahhabism’ versus ‘Ordinary Sufism’? Filming Islam for Postsoviet Muslim Young People
This study of Muslim documentaries in Dagestan today is the first attempt at a discursive analysis of the reproduction of postsoviet Islamic knowledge in the area, from written text to video, through investigation of debates on ‘true’ and ‘false’ Islam between competing factions of ‘Wahhabis’ and ‘traditionalists’, of the Cold War roots of Islamic visual propaganda, and of its young producers and audiences
Waqf Endowments in Daghestani Village Communities
Given the lack of reliable first-hand sources, nobody has yet traced the modern history of Islamic charitable endowments in the North Caucasus under early Soviet rule. This article is one of the first attempts to conduct such research in Daghestan. In this republic waqf foundations were legally acknowledged until 23 January 1927, when a decree turned them into national state property that would be divided among their previous holders in cooperati…
Islam in the Russian Empire
Taking Islam and the Russian empire for natural antagonists, such a vision relied on the Orientalist approach representing Islam as a homogeneous and timeless entity opposing all non-Muslim cultures. Having recognised Islam at the end of the eighteenth century, the authorities constructed a complicated imperial network of Islamic institutions including Muslim clergy, parishes and four regional muftiates. The administration of Muslims differed in …
Traditionalist’ versus ‘Islamist’ identities in a Dagestanicollective farm1
Al-Azhar and Shari'a Courts in Twentieth Century Caucasus
L'A. discute l'influence de la formation juridique islamique a l'Universite d'al-Azhar sur les institutions et pratiques musulmanes qui qui sont issues du mouvement pour le renouveau islamique dans le Caucase du Nord contemporain. A partir d'etudes de terrain realisees dans les annees 1990 et de sources diverses, il propose une analyse comparative, anthropologique et historique, centrant son analyse sur le savoir juridique tel qu'il est acquis, t…
The Islamic revival and the national question in post‐Soviet Dagestan
Over the last 4-5 years the institutions and values of Islam have quickly regained their former influence on the social and political life of Dagestan, which they had lost in the Soviet era. Only at the end of perestroika did persecution of Muslims cease, and at once the Muslim congregations (jamaat) at the functioning village and town mosques which had remained intact in Soviet times were legalised. From the beginning of 1990 the number of mosqu…
Ordinary Wahhabism’ versus ‘Ordinary Sufism’? Filming Islam for Postsoviet Muslim Young People
This study of Muslim documentaries in Dagestan today is the first attempt at a discursive analysis of the reproduction of postsoviet Islamic knowledge in the area, from written text to video, through investigation of debates on ‘true’ and ‘false’ Islam between competing factions of ‘Wahhabis’ and ‘traditionalists’, of the Cold War roots of Islamic visual propaganda, and of its young producers and audiences
Traditionalist’ versus ‘Islamist’ identities in a Dagestanicollective farm1
Al-Azhar and Shari'a Courts in Twentieth Century Caucasus
L'A. discute l'influence de la formation juridique islamique a l'Universite d'al-Azhar sur les institutions et pratiques musulmanes qui qui sont issues du mouvement pour le renouveau islamique dans le Caucase du Nord contemporain. A partir d'etudes de terrain realisees dans les annees 1990 et de sources diverses, il propose une analyse comparative, anthropologique et historique, centrant son analyse sur le savoir juridique tel qu'il est acquis, t…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Waqf Endowments in Daghestani Village Communities
Given the lack of reliable first-hand sources, nobody has yet traced the modern history of Islamic charitable endowments in the North Caucasus under early Soviet rule. This article is one of the first attempts to conduct such research in Daghestan. In this republic waqf foundations were legally acknowledged until 23 January 1927, when a decree turned them into national state property that would be divided among their previous holders in cooperati…
The Islamic revival and the national question in post‐Soviet Dagestan
Over the last 4-5 years the institutions and values of Islam have quickly regained their former influence on the social and political life of Dagestan, which they had lost in the Soviet era. Only at the end of perestroika did persecution of Muslims cease, and at once the Muslim congregations (jamaat) at the functioning village and town mosques which had remained intact in Soviet times were legalised. From the beginning of 1990 the number of mosqu…
Al-Azhar and Shari'a Courts in Twentieth Century Caucasus
L'A. discute l'influence de la formation juridique islamique a l'Universite d'al-Azhar sur les institutions et pratiques musulmanes qui qui sont issues du mouvement pour le renouveau islamique dans le Caucase du Nord contemporain. A partir d'etudes de terrain realisees dans les annees 1990 et de sources diverses, il propose une analyse comparative, anthropologique et historique, centrant son analyse sur le savoir juridique tel qu'il est acquis, t…
Islam in the Russian Empire
Taking Islam and the Russian empire for natural antagonists, such a vision relied on the Orientalist approach representing Islam as a homogeneous and timeless entity opposing all non-Muslim cultures. Having recognised Islam at the end of the eighteenth century, the authorities constructed a complicated imperial network of Islamic institutions including Muslim clergy, parishes and four regional muftiates. The administration of Muslims differed in …
Traditionalist’ versus ‘Islamist’ identities in a Dagestanicollective farm1
Waqf Endowments in Daghestani Village Communities
Given the lack of reliable first-hand sources, nobody has yet traced the modern history of Islamic charitable endowments in the North Caucasus under early Soviet rule. This article is one of the first attempts to conduct such research in Daghestan. In this republic waqf foundations were legally acknowledged until 23 January 1927, when a decree turned them into national state property that would be divided among their previous holders in cooperati…
Ordinary Wahhabism’ versus ‘Ordinary Sufism’? Filming Islam for Postsoviet Muslim Young People
This study of Muslim documentaries in Dagestan today is the first attempt at a discursive analysis of the reproduction of postsoviet Islamic knowledge in the area, from written text to video, through investigation of debates on ‘true’ and ‘false’ Islam between competing factions of ‘Wahhabis’ and ‘traditionalists’, of the Cold War roots of Islamic visual propaganda, and of its young producers and audiences
Dmitriy Yur’evich Arapov (1943–2015)
Arapov was one of Russia's major experts on the history of Islam in the Soviet Union
Paradoxes in the Study of Contemporary Islam in Russia
Applied Oriental Studies of Russia’s Own Islam
Dagestan in transnational Sufi Networks
This case-study relates to the history of shared transnational Sufi networks. The Naqshbandiyya-Halidiya brotherhood of the Ottoman origin once moved from the Middle East to Russia's borderlands in the Eastern Caucasus and then came back to the Ottoman Empire from the North Caucasus. Dagestani Sufi networks and holy places represent a specific kind of interactions between the Muslim elites in the Middle East, the North Caucasus, the Volga-Ural re…
In memoriam. Amri Rzaevich Shikhsaidov (20 March 1928–21 September 2019)
‘Ali al-Ghumuqi (Kayaev) as the Historian of Caucasus’ Muslim Peoples
The paper is an attempt at writing of the new conceptual biography of a renowned Muslim reformist leader in late tsarist and early Soviet Caucasus. After ‘Ali al- Ghumuqi more known under the name of Kayaev (1878–1943) from the Dagestani village of Ghumuq fell the victim of the Stalinist political repressions and then was gradually rehabilitated, historians often presented him a leftist journalist and politician close to the Bolsheviks, sometimes…
Legal Vocabulary of Arabic-Speaking ‘adat Monuments in 14th-20th Century Dagestan (Some Results of the Study of Islamic Discourses)
The article is an attempt at a concise historical-legal dictionary of legal custom or ‘adat practiced by Muslim highlanders in the North-East Caucasus in the 14th-20th centuries. It contains 107 dictionary and phraseology units gathered in documents, normative and narrative sources including inscriptions. They share characteristic inaccuracies in Arabic morphology and peculiar semantics. The author argues that it was the result of cultural transl…
"Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Journey to the "Other World
Fazliddin Muhammadiev's Dar on dunyo ("In the other world"), first published in Tajik in 1965 and later translated to Russian, Uzbek, and many other languages, is the only known fictionalized account of the ḥajj produced in the Soviet Union. Based on a trip made by the author in 1963, the novel provided the Soviet reader a rare glimpse into this sacred rite. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary responses, and the text itself, this article tr…
Forum
Material religion" as a research program is a relatively new development in the study of religion in the social sciences and humanities. Though this approach has its own forerunners and predecessors, one can argue that it took shape in the wake of an epistemological critique of social and cultural anthropology which treated religion as embedded in the cognitive and psychological experiences of a human being. Accordingly, the material manifestatio…
Entangled Narratives of the Changing Muslim Hagiography
From Muslim Chronicles to National Historiographies? (The Conceptual Introduction)
The formation of national Muslim historiographies is still understudied in the context of inter-imperial transfers of knowledge in the era of the creation of national republics on the ruins of colonial empires. Meanwhile, its investigation sheds light on a number of key historical subjects of nation-building in nationalizing empires, hybriditization of Muslim historiography, subjectivity of Islamic historical knowledge. Based on the materials of …
Highlanders’ Sources in Oriental Languages about the Caucasus War
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