Russian/Soviet Perspectives on Islam

FAIN: RQ-230533-15

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)
Vadim Staklo (Project Director: December 2014 to present)

Preparation for online publication of translations of approximately 3,000 pages of documents testifying to Soviet and Russian perspectives on Islam. (36 months)

George Mason University has launched a major new international multidisciplinary scholarly program, the Russian/Soviet Perspectives on Islam (RPI). The project, with primary support from the Luce Foundation, seeks to facilitate scholarly and public understanding of cultural coexistence and conflict in multi-ethnic and multi-confessional societies through the digitization, exploration and dissemination of a large document collection on the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular state and the Muslim regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. Since the Luce Foundation grant does not include support for translation, the present application for NEH's Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant seeks to expand the impact of that program through the translation and online publication of a carefully-chosen subset of those documents.

Associated Products

Russian Perspectives on Islam (Web Resource)
Title: Russian Perspectives on Islam
Author: Erin McGlinchey
Author: Vadim Staklo
Author: Steve Barnes
Author: Karina Korostelina
Author: Mills Kelly
Abstract: Russian Perspectives on Islam is an annotated digital archive documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the Orthodox/secular state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of materials illuminates the strategies implemented by the Soviet and Russian state to establish authority and legitimacy among predominantly Muslim populations in Central Asia, the Northern Caucasus and Siberia and to enhance Moscow’s influence internationally with nearby Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey. The digital archive is designed to disseminate these documents to the widest possible scholarly community and general readership.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://islamperspectives.org/rpi/
Primary URL Description: Archive website

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