Author: Moshe Gammer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: chechnia, daghestan, conquest, shamil, resistance, tsar, muslim
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-07-30
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0714681415
ISBN-13: 9780714681412

Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into this controversial subject.

Author: Moshe Gammer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: caucasus, volume, region, caspian
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0714652482
ISBN-13: 9780714652481

The Caspian Region, Volume 2 - together with Volume 1 - offers new issues and approaches to give readers a fuller understanding of this part of the world, as well as correcting some erroneous notions.

Author: Moshe Gammer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: disorder, central, asian, studies, soviet, post, nationalism, islam, state, caucasus, ethno
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-12-11
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415423457
ISBN-13: 9780415423458

With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world’s attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic terrorists and al-Qaida. Scholars from different disciplines who specialise in the Caucasus analyze key topics such as: discussions of grass root perceptions the influence of informal power structures on ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus Russian policies towards Islam and their destabi

Author: Moshe Gammer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: tsar, resistance, muslim
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2003-07-30
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0714650994
ISBN-13: 9780714650999

Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has often been misinterpreted by Western scholars.

Author: Moshe Gammer
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: region, emerging, volume, caspian
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0714652474
ISBN-13: 9780714652474

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, new states - most of them muslim - emerged in central Asia and the Caucasus. These new states proved to be both oil-rich and central in the strip of conflict and instability that stretches from central Europe to the Far East. This volume draws attention to previously neglected issues which could result in conflict:* the water problem and negotiation in central Asia* the issues of ’Southern Azerbaijan’, Ajaria and Javakheti * the many problems of multi-ethnic Daghestan* two attempts at unity in the Northern Caucasus.The bo

Authors:Moshe Feinstein, Moshe David Tendler,
Publisher: Ktav Publishing House
Keywords: commentary, care, critically, translation, feinstein, rav, moshe, responsa
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0881254444
ISBN-13: 9780881254440

Authors:Professor Moshe Idel, Moshe Idel,
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: mystics, messianic
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0300082886
ISBN-13: 9780300082883

Exploring the interplay of Jewish messianism and mysticism from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries, a leading scholar of Jewish thought provides new perspectives in this controversial book. Moshe Idel counters common views, showing the close relation of messianism and mysticism, the early messianic orientation of Kabbalah, and the resemblance of Jewish messianic and mystical experience to Christian messianism.