The choice of technology in developing countries
In: World development 5,9/10
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In: World development 5,9/10
In: Special issue
In: Central Asian survey, Band 42, Heft 2, S. 426-427
ISSN: 1465-3354
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 81, Heft 4, S. 1109-1110
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: Central Asian survey, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 138-140
ISSN: 1465-3354
In: Iranian studies, Band 51, Heft 6, S. 983-985
ISSN: 1475-4819
In: Central Asian survey, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 555-574
ISSN: 1465-3354
In: Central Asian survey, Band 36, Heft 4, S. 555-574
ISSN: 0263-4937
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In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 491-510
ISSN: 1471-6380
AbstractOver the course of the 18th–early 20th centuries, a curious narrative emerged in Central Asia wherein the Turko-Persian monarch Nadir Shah Afshar was converted from Shiʿism to Sunnism by a group of Islamic scholars outside of Bukhara. While this legend was rooted in Nadir Shah's theological ambitions to bring Shiʿism back into the Sunni fold as a fifth school of canonical law, the memory of that event in the subsequent two centuries was intimately tied to the establishment of several scholarly dynasties, which managed to perpetuate themselves all the way to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. This article engages the memory of this mythological conversion to explore sharpening conceptions of sectarian divisions and the role of genealogy in projecting spiritual authority. Most broadly, it argues that—far from a passing depredation—the Afsharid Empire profoundly shaped the geopolitical and social landscape of Persianate Asia.
In: Iranian studies, Band 48, Heft 5, S. 805-826
ISSN: 1475-4819
During the Second World War and its immediate aftermath the Soviet All-Union Society for Cultural Ties Abroad (VOKS) engaged in an aggressive campaign of cultural outreach in Iran to promote socialist modernity amongst Iranian leftists. Iran represented VOKS' first serious expansion outside Europe and one which the Soviet Union was uniquely poised to exploit. VOKS tapped into the Soviet Union's orientalist scholarly establishment inherited from the Russian Empire to advance the argument that not only were Iran and the Soviet Union geographically contiguous, they were both inheritors of the same Persianate cultural legacy—ironically a legacy that the Soviet Union had actively displaced in favor of Turkic national SSRs. Meanwhile, Iranian leftists were not passive receivers of Soviet propaganda. They exploited VOKS resources to found the Iranian Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR and establish regional branches throughout the country. In particular, Iranian intellectuals fixated on Soviet Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan as evidence of the abundant possibilities for a specifically Persianate articulation of socialist modernity. This article uses both Russian archival sources and Persian-language periodicals and interview transcripts to explore this unique confluence of Soviet and Iranian ambitions.
In: Central Asian survey, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 557-559
ISSN: 1465-3354
In: Central Asian survey, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 557-559
ISSN: 0263-4937
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 359-361
ISSN: 1465-3923
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 359-361
ISSN: 0090-5992
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 94, Heft 375, S. 304-305
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: Public administration and development: the international journal of management research and practice, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 186-186
ISSN: 1099-162X