title: Orientalisms May Differ
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metadata.value: Alimdjanov, Bakhtiyor A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T13:21:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T13:21:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Alimdjanov B. A. Orientalisms May Differ. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 4, рр. 1488–1497.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.420
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16937
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metadata.value: The article examines a new book by R. Yu. Pochekaev “State and Law in Central Asia through
  the Eyes of Russian and Western Travelers of the 18th — early 20th centuries”. As a theoretical
  basis for his research, the author uses the concept of “Orientalism” in a truncated version. That
  is, “Orientalism” in the Western sense is used in the analysis of works of only Western travelers.
  The author also contrasts “local” sources with the works of travelers. The main idea of the
  author is that travelers’ notes are the key to understanding the legal and state structure of the
  countries of Central Asia. The author insists that records by “the other” will become the channel
  for promoting the idea that Islam was not a comprehensive tool for explaining statehood
  and law in Central Asia. The author claims that “local” sources ignore the pre-Islamic and
  nomadic “remnants” of the law (adat). It should be noted that the historians of Central Asia,
  especially the Orientalists from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have discovered a considerable
  layer of archival documents that change our understanding of the late Middle Ages of Central
  Asia. It is worth pointing out that local religious practices actively used and assimilated both
  “customary” law and Sharia. The coexistence of different religious, nomadic and pre-Islamic
  practices is a specific feature of history of the population of Central Asia. The author tries to
  reconsider the Eurocentric approach to statehood and law in Central Asia. Unfortunately, the
  superficiality of the reconsideration gives rise to justification of imperialism and revival of the
  “positive” Soviet positivism in understanding the history of Central Asia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Asia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: travelers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Game
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: British Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: local sources
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: statehood
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Orientalisms May Differ
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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