Galina M Yemelianova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4064211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Galina M Yemelianova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Galina M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yemelianova |
| SIGNATURE | YEMELIANOVA G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1381-093X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question
The article addresses the discursive, political and geopolitical evolution of the so-called Eastern Question by focusing on its Armenian dimension from the nineteenth century until the present. It examines major stages of the Question’s historical reconfiguration in terms of its key protagonists, beneficiaries and the ramifications for modern Turkey’s relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan. It contends that the legacy of the Eastern Question has c…
The De Facto State of Nagorno-Karabakh: Historical and Geopolitical Perspectives
The article analyses the complex history of Nagorny Karabakh and the wider Caucasus and its implications for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Special attention is paid to the geopolitical role of Iran, Turkey, Russia, the United Kingdom and other states. It contends that the Second Karabakh War of 2020 and its aftermath signalled a new historical stage in the geopolitical rearrangement of the …
Muslims of Post-Communist Eurasia
This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims’ rediscovery of their ‘Muslimness’ across post-communist Eurasia. It examines the effects on the Islamic scene of the political and ideological divergence of Central and South-Eastern Europe from Russia and most of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Of particular interest are the implications of the proliferation of new, ‘global’ interpretations o…
Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus
Muslims of Central Asia: An Introduction
The first history-based integrated overview of Islam and Muslims in present-day Central AsiaBetween the tenth and sixteenth centuries Central Asia was one of the most prestigious cultural areas of the entire Muslim world, playing a pivotal role in the Silk Road trade. Throughout that history, and up to the present, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and other Muslim peoples of Central Asia have developed their own unique understanding and p…
The UK and US Academic Discourse on Russia and Eurasia: A Critical Enquiry
The article analyses the development of English-language scholarship on Russia and wider Eurasia from the 1990s onwards. It is particularly concerned with the combined effects of the marketisation of higher education and the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 for language-based inter-disciplinary Russian and East European area studies, which in the past generated in-depth knowledge on different aspects of life in the USSR. It argues that advancin…
How “Muslim” are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry
The article analyzes the social, political, and symbolic functions of Islam in contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Over many centuries, Central Asians developed a particular form of Islam based on a productive and fluid synergy among Islam per se, their tribal legal and customary norms, and Tengrian and Zoroastrian beliefs and practices. It is characterized by a high level of doctrinal and functional ada…
Western academic discourse on the post-Soviet de facto state phenomenon
This article examines how the so-called post-Soviet de facto states are conceptualized and discussed within the wider context of Western English-language social and political sciences, including inter-disciplinary Russian, Slavonic, East European and Eurasian area studies. It outlines the main theoretical models and methodologies utilized in the analysis of this phenomenon, and identifies their respective benefits and shortcomings. The article po…
Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus
Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991 the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus – corresponding to present-day Azerbaijan and the Russian North Caucasus – have been in a continuous process of renegotiating their Islamic identity and the role of Islam in the processes of nation-building. This has involved a complex set of factors, including the correlation between the rise of Islam and socio-economic well-being (or the lack of it), the level and lon…
Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus
Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991 the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus –corresponding to present-day Azerbaijan and the Russian North Caucasus – have been in a continuous process of renegotiating their Islamic identity and the role of Islam in the processes of nation-building. This has involved a complex set of factors, including the correlation between the rise of Islam and socio-economic well-being (or the lack of it), the level and long…
Islam, national identity and politics in contemporary Kazakhstan
This article argues that, unlike other Central Asian states, the official response in Kazakhstan to its Islamic revival is distinctively ambivalent and even contradictory. The Nazarbayev government has rhetorically embraced the Kazakh qoja-centred Sufi heritage and the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam as the ‘traditional’ forms of Islam among Kazakh nomads and perceived them as constituent elements of the nation-building process. However, the represe…
Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir, by Emmanuel Karagiannis, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, xv + 174 pp. + glossary, bibliography and index, ISBN 10 0-415-55399
Many Faces of the Caucasus
This collection addresses some of the major challenges facing scholars and practitioners who are dealing with the Caucasus, as well as with ethnic and ethno-religious relations in Eurasia and the w
Radical Islam in the former Soviet Union
"This is the first comprehensive and comparative examination of Islamic radicalisation in the Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union since the end of communism. Since the 1990s, the ex-Soviet Muslim Volga-Urals, Caucasus and Central Asia have been among the most volatile and dynamic zones of Islamic radicalisation in the Islamic East. Although partially driven by a wider Islamic resurgence which began in the late 1970s in the Middle East, the …
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder edited by Moshe Gammer. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007, xvii +233 pp., £75.00, hardback. Since the early 1990s Chechnya and e
When the West Meets the East: Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Kinship, ethnicity and religion in post-Communist societies: Russia’s autonomous republic of Kabardino-Balkariya
Among the consequences of perestroika and the subsequent breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 has been the rise of ethnic nationalism. In the non-Russian parts of the former USSR this process has been accompanied by the reactivation of clan and other primordial social networks which under Soviet Communism had been in abeyance. This article, based on extensive field research material, examines political and social transformation in post-Communist K…
Islam in Post-Soviet Russia
Islam in Russia: An Historical Perspective Galina Yemelianova 2. Islam and Power Galina Yemelianova 3. Official and Unofficial Islam Dmitrii Makarov and Rafik Mukhametshin Part II The Private face of Islam 4. Islam and the Search for Identity Elena Omel'chenko and Gusel'Sabirova 5. Practising Islam: Rituals, Ceremonies and the Transmission of Ethno-Islamic Values Elana Omel'chenko and Gusel'Sabirova 6. Islam in Multi-Ethnic Society: identity and …
Russia's Umma and its Muftis
Russia and Islam
The end of communism has revived the historical debate about Russia's relations with both the West and the East. Some commentators viewed the Russian-Chechen war as a clash of civilizations, which wou
Conclusion
Islam has played an important, albeit indirect, role in Russian history and has arguably accounted for some common fundamental characteristics between contemporary Russian society and those in the Islamic East. Among them are a tendency towards political despotism and a deficit of established and democratic procedures in the acquisition, appliance and transfer of power; undeveloped civic solidarity; the prevalence of collective over individual va…
Russia’s Encounter with Islam (622–1480)
By the time Islam emerged in Arabia as a new powerful religion in the seventh century ad, the ancestors of modern Russians, or proto-Russians, were still pagans who venerated natural forces. Their pagan pantheon included Perun the god of thunder and lightning; Svaroga the god of the sky; Stribog the god of the wind, and the god of the sun known under the names of Dajbog, Khors and Veles. The pagan customs which were centred on a sacrifice ritual,…
Sufism and Politics in the North Caucasus
After the collapse of communism in Russia, which is the home of more than 14 million Muslims, there has been an Islamic revival that has been part of the process of political and intellectual liberalization of society. The major Islamic enclaves of the Russian Federation are located in the Volga-Urals, the North Caucasus, and central Russia. Russian Muslims are concentrated in the eight autonomous republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Adyghea, K…
Shaimiev's 'Khanate' on the Volga and its Russian Subjects
This paper examines some aspects of post-Soviet transition in Tatarstan, one of 21 ethnic autonomous republics of the Russian Federation, the population of which is almost equally divided between Tatars, Russia's largest ethnic and religious minority, and Russians. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Tatarstan together with Chechnya championed a fundamental reform of the rigid 'centre—periphery' relations with Russia. The Tatarstan leader Min…
Islam and Nation Building in Tatarstan and Dagestan of the Russian Federation
This article is based on the preliminary results of a project on “Islam, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Tatarstan and Dagestan,” which began in March 1997 and ended in September 1999. These two out of Russia's 21 autonomous republics were chosen for comparative research because, although they are both Muslim, there are obvious geographical, ethnic, cultural, and political differences between them. Each republic also represents a distinc…
Radical Islam in the former Soviet Union
"This is the first comprehensive and comparative examination of Islamic radicalisation in the Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union since the end of communism. Since the 1990s, the ex-Soviet Muslim Volga-Urals, Caucasus and Central Asia have been among the most volatile and dynamic zones of Islamic radicalisation in the Islamic East. Although partially driven by a wider Islamic resurgence which began in the late 1970s in the Middle East, the …
Islam, national identity and politics in contemporary Kazakhstan
This article argues that, unlike other Central Asian states, the official response in Kazakhstan to its Islamic revival is distinctively ambivalent and even contradictory. The Nazarbayev government has rhetorically embraced the Kazakh qoja-centred Sufi heritage and the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam as the ‘traditional’ forms of Islam among Kazakh nomads and perceived them as constituent elements of the nation-building process. However, the represe…
Kinship, ethnicity and religion in post-Communist societies: Russia’s autonomous republic of Kabardino-Balkariya
Among the consequences of perestroika and the subsequent breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 has been the rise of ethnic nationalism. In the non-Russian parts of the former USSR this process has been accompanied by the reactivation of clan and other primordial social networks which under Soviet Communism had been in abeyance. This article, based on extensive field research material, examines political and social transformation in post-Communist K…
Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus
Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991 the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus –corresponding to present-day Azerbaijan and the Russian North Caucasus – have been in a continuous process of renegotiating their Islamic identity and the role of Islam in the processes of nation-building. This has involved a complex set of factors, including the correlation between the rise of Islam and socio-economic well-being (or the lack of it), the level and long…
Russia's Umma and its Muftis
Islam and Nation Building in Tatarstan and Dagestan of the Russian Federation
This article is based on the preliminary results of a project on “Islam, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Tatarstan and Dagestan,” which began in March 1997 and ended in September 1999. These two out of Russia's 21 autonomous republics were chosen for comparative research because, although they are both Muslim, there are obvious geographical, ethnic, cultural, and political differences between them. Each republic also represents a distinc…
When the West Meets the East: Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The national identity of the Volga Tatars at the turn of the 19th century: Tatarism, Turkism and Islam
(1997). The national identity of the Volga Tatars at the turn of the 19th century: Tatarism, Turkism and Islam. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 543-572
Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question
The article addresses the discursive, political and geopolitical evolution of the so-called Eastern Question by focusing on its Armenian dimension from the nineteenth century until the present. It examines major stages of the Question’s historical reconfiguration in terms of its key protagonists, beneficiaries and the ramifications for modern Turkey’s relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan. It contends that the legacy of the Eastern Question has c…
The De Facto State of Nagorno-Karabakh: Historical and Geopolitical Perspectives
The article analyses the complex history of Nagorny Karabakh and the wider Caucasus and its implications for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Special attention is paid to the geopolitical role of Iran, Turkey, Russia, the United Kingdom and other states. It contends that the Second Karabakh War of 2020 and its aftermath signalled a new historical stage in the geopolitical rearrangement of the …
Many Faces of the Caucasus
This collection addresses some of the major challenges facing scholars and practitioners who are dealing with the Caucasus, as well as with ethnic and ethno-religious relations in Eurasia and the w
Sufism and Politics in the North Caucasus
After the collapse of communism in Russia, which is the home of more than 14 million Muslims, there has been an Islamic revival that has been part of the process of political and intellectual liberalization of society. The major Islamic enclaves of the Russian Federation are located in the Volga-Urals, the North Caucasus, and central Russia. Russian Muslims are concentrated in the eight autonomous republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Adyghea, K…
Shaimiev's 'Khanate' on the Volga and its Russian Subjects
This paper examines some aspects of post-Soviet transition in Tatarstan, one of 21 ethnic autonomous republics of the Russian Federation, the population of which is almost equally divided between Tatars, Russia's largest ethnic and religious minority, and Russians. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Tatarstan together with Chechnya championed a fundamental reform of the rigid 'centre—periphery' relations with Russia. The Tatarstan leader Min…
How “Muslim” are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry
The article analyzes the social, political, and symbolic functions of Islam in contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Over many centuries, Central Asians developed a particular form of Islam based on a productive and fluid synergy among Islam per se, their tribal legal and customary norms, and Tengrian and Zoroastrian beliefs and practices. It is characterized by a high level of doctrinal and functional ada…
Western academic discourse on the post-Soviet de facto state phenomenon
This article examines how the so-called post-Soviet de facto states are conceptualized and discussed within the wider context of Western English-language social and political sciences, including inter-disciplinary Russian, Slavonic, East European and Eurasian area studies. It outlines the main theoretical models and methodologies utilized in the analysis of this phenomenon, and identifies their respective benefits and shortcomings. The article po…
Russia and Islam: The History and Prospects of a Relationship
L'A. se propose de retracer les grandes lignes qui constituent l'histoire de l'evolution des relations entre Islam et Russie en remontant jusqu'au XV e siecle. Son objectif est d'ouvrir, a partir du passe, les perspectives de ces relations sur l'avenir. A cette occasion, il souligne l'importance du sovietisme, de la fin du sovietisme dans cette histoire. Il montre le role des musulmans dans la composition de l'identite russe, il determine la rela…
The national identity of the Volga Tatars at the turn of the 19th century: Tatarism, Turkism and Islam
(1997). The national identity of the Volga Tatars at the turn of the 19th century: Tatarism, Turkism and Islam. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 543-572
Islam and Nation Building in Tatarstan and Dagestan of the Russian Federation
This article is based on the preliminary results of a project on “Islam, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Tatarstan and Dagestan,” which began in March 1997 and ended in September 1999. These two out of Russia's 21 autonomous republics were chosen for comparative research because, although they are both Muslim, there are obvious geographical, ethnic, cultural, and political differences between them. Each republic also represents a distinc…
Shaimiev's 'Khanate' on the Volga and its Russian Subjects
This paper examines some aspects of post-Soviet transition in Tatarstan, one of 21 ethnic autonomous republics of the Russian Federation, the population of which is almost equally divided between Tatars, Russia's largest ethnic and religious minority, and Russians. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Tatarstan together with Chechnya championed a fundamental reform of the rigid 'centre—periphery' relations with Russia. The Tatarstan leader Min…
Sufism and Politics in the North Caucasus
After the collapse of communism in Russia, which is the home of more than 14 million Muslims, there has been an Islamic revival that has been part of the process of political and intellectual liberalization of society. The major Islamic enclaves of the Russian Federation are located in the Volga-Urals, the North Caucasus, and central Russia. Russian Muslims are concentrated in the eight autonomous republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Adyghea, K…
Russia and Islam
The end of communism has revived the historical debate about Russia's relations with both the West and the East. Some commentators viewed the Russian-Chechen war as a clash of civilizations, which wou
Conclusion
Islam has played an important, albeit indirect, role in Russian history and has arguably accounted for some common fundamental characteristics between contemporary Russian society and those in the Islamic East. Among them are a tendency towards political despotism and a deficit of established and democratic procedures in the acquisition, appliance and transfer of power; undeveloped civic solidarity; the prevalence of collective over individual va…
Russia’s Encounter with Islam (622–1480)
By the time Islam emerged in Arabia as a new powerful religion in the seventh century ad, the ancestors of modern Russians, or proto-Russians, were still pagans who venerated natural forces. Their pagan pantheon included Perun the god of thunder and lightning; Svaroga the god of the sky; Stribog the god of the wind, and the god of the sun known under the names of Dajbog, Khors and Veles. The pagan customs which were centred on a sacrifice ritual,…
Islam in Post-Soviet Russia
Islam in Russia: An Historical Perspective Galina Yemelianova 2. Islam and Power Galina Yemelianova 3. Official and Unofficial Islam Dmitrii Makarov and Rafik Mukhametshin Part II The Private face of Islam 4. Islam and the Search for Identity Elena Omel'chenko and Gusel'Sabirova 5. Practising Islam: Rituals, Ceremonies and the Transmission of Ethno-Islamic Values Elana Omel'chenko and Gusel'Sabirova 6. Islam in Multi-Ethnic Society: identity and …
Russia's Umma and its Muftis
Kinship, ethnicity and religion in post-Communist societies: Russia’s autonomous republic of Kabardino-Balkariya
Among the consequences of perestroika and the subsequent breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 has been the rise of ethnic nationalism. In the non-Russian parts of the former USSR this process has been accompanied by the reactivation of clan and other primordial social networks which under Soviet Communism had been in abeyance. This article, based on extensive field research material, examines political and social transformation in post-Communist K…
When the West Meets the East: Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Radical Islam in the former Soviet Union
"This is the first comprehensive and comparative examination of Islamic radicalisation in the Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union since the end of communism. Since the 1990s, the ex-Soviet Muslim Volga-Urals, Caucasus and Central Asia have been among the most volatile and dynamic zones of Islamic radicalisation in the Islamic East. Although partially driven by a wider Islamic resurgence which began in the late 1970s in the Middle East, the …
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder edited by Moshe Gammer. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007, xvii +233 pp., £75.00, hardback. Since the early 1990s Chechnya and e
Many Faces of the Caucasus
This collection addresses some of the major challenges facing scholars and practitioners who are dealing with the Caucasus, as well as with ethnic and ethno-religious relations in Eurasia and the w
Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir, by Emmanuel Karagiannis, London and New York, Routledge, 2010, xv + 174 pp. + glossary, bibliography and index, ISBN 10 0-415-55399
Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus
Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991 the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus – corresponding to present-day Azerbaijan and the Russian North Caucasus – have been in a continuous process of renegotiating their Islamic identity and the role of Islam in the processes of nation-building. This has involved a complex set of factors, including the correlation between the rise of Islam and socio-economic well-being (or the lack of it), the level and lon…
Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus
Following the break-up of the USSR in 1991 the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus –corresponding to present-day Azerbaijan and the Russian North Caucasus – have been in a continuous process of renegotiating their Islamic identity and the role of Islam in the processes of nation-building. This has involved a complex set of factors, including the correlation between the rise of Islam and socio-economic well-being (or the lack of it), the level and long…
Islam, national identity and politics in contemporary Kazakhstan
This article argues that, unlike other Central Asian states, the official response in Kazakhstan to its Islamic revival is distinctively ambivalent and even contradictory. The Nazarbayev government has rhetorically embraced the Kazakh qoja-centred Sufi heritage and the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam as the ‘traditional’ forms of Islam among Kazakh nomads and perceived them as constituent elements of the nation-building process. However, the represe…
Western academic discourse on the post-Soviet de facto state phenomenon
This article examines how the so-called post-Soviet de facto states are conceptualized and discussed within the wider context of Western English-language social and political sciences, including inter-disciplinary Russian, Slavonic, East European and Eurasian area studies. It outlines the main theoretical models and methodologies utilized in the analysis of this phenomenon, and identifies their respective benefits and shortcomings. The article po…
How “Muslim” are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry
The article analyzes the social, political, and symbolic functions of Islam in contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Over many centuries, Central Asians developed a particular form of Islam based on a productive and fluid synergy among Islam per se, their tribal legal and customary norms, and Tengrian and Zoroastrian beliefs and practices. It is characterized by a high level of doctrinal and functional ada…
The UK and US Academic Discourse on Russia and Eurasia: A Critical Enquiry
The article analyses the development of English-language scholarship on Russia and wider Eurasia from the 1990s onwards. It is particularly concerned with the combined effects of the marketisation of higher education and the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 for language-based inter-disciplinary Russian and East European area studies, which in the past generated in-depth knowledge on different aspects of life in the USSR. It argues that advancin…
Muslims of Central Asia: An Introduction
The first history-based integrated overview of Islam and Muslims in present-day Central AsiaBetween the tenth and sixteenth centuries Central Asia was one of the most prestigious cultural areas of the entire Muslim world, playing a pivotal role in the Silk Road trade. Throughout that history, and up to the present, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and other Muslim peoples of Central Asia have developed their own unique understanding and p…
Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus
Muslims of Post-Communist Eurasia
This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims’ rediscovery of their ‘Muslimness’ across post-communist Eurasia. It examines the effects on the Islamic scene of the political and ideological divergence of Central and South-Eastern Europe from Russia and most of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Of particular interest are the implications of the proliferation of new, ‘global’ interpretations o…
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