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Why Daghestan is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History
- Author(s):
- Rebecca Ruth Gould (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- Islamicate Studies, Late Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Place Studies, Writing Systems
- Subject(s):
- Caucasus, Islam, History, Arabs--Social life and customs, Caucasian languages, History, Ancient
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- Historical Critical Method, transnational and comparative history, Islamic, Islamic history, Arabic culture, Ancient history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/w12n-jq07
- Abstract:
- During the final decade of his productive life, Moshe Gammer (1950-2013) edited the first major English-language series on Daghestani philology. This chapter examines key aspects of Gammer’s legacy, while offering an overview of Daghestani philology from the colonial period to the present, and outlining how this field of inquiry enables us to revise regnant paradigms concerning language, law, and the circulation of culture within contemporary Islamic Studies. I concentrate on the potential of Daghestan’s Islamic archives to contribute to the study of linguistic and legal modernity, transregional Arabic in its interface with the vernacular, and plural Islamic modernities.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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