Russia’s ‘Middle East’: the escalation of religious conflicts in the Northern Caucasus. OSW Commentary Number 207/04.04.2016

The eastern part of the Northern Caucasus (Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia) is becoming an increasingly distinct region in cultural, civilisational and social terms when compared to the rest of the Russian Federation. The situation on the ground there bears greater resemblance to the Middle East than to Russia: Islam is the key factor organising socio-political life, and conflicts inside the Muslim community, often involving bloodshed, are the driving power of developments in the region. The conflict is between the two main branches of Islam in the Northern Caucasus: Sufism linked to the official clergy and government, and Salafism which is gaining more and more supporters among young people in the Caucasus. Tension, including clashes over mosques, attacks, mass detentions, etc. has been observed mainly in Dagestan and Ingushetia.

Kamālāt-i Imdādiyah.

Mode of access: Internet.

Beyond Fashion Tips and Hijab Tutorials: The Aesthetic Style of Islamic Lifestyle Videos

Among young women, lifestyle videos have become extremely popular on YouTube, and a similar trend has emerged among young Muslim women who share modest fashion tips and discuss religious topics. This paper examines the videos of two prominent Muslim women on YouTube, Amena Khan and Dina Torkia, in an effort to understand how they engage with aesthetic styles in order to work against Western stereotypes of Muslim women as oppressed and lacking individuality. Islamic lifestyle videos might appear to simply promote a vacuous focus on appearances, but I argue that it is through the aesthetics and affects of these videos that Amena and Dina do political work to redistribute the sensible and shift what is considered attractive, beautiful and pleasurable in Western society. Additionally, the hybrid aesthetic styles and affects of authenticity and pleasure, which are possible in digital spaces like YouTube, offer Amena and Dina the chance to control their own visual images and to resist being coopted as icons of Western freedom or Islamic piety.

India and the war. Statement issued by the Governor-General of India on 17th October, 1939.

Appendixes: A. Resolution by the Working Committee of the National Liberal Federation of India, passed 10th September, 1939.--B. Statement issued by the Congress Working Committee on 15th September, 1939.--C. Resolution by All-India Congress Committee, passed 10th October, 1939.--D. Resolution passed by the Working Committee of the All-India Muslim League on 18th September, 1939.--E. Joint representation to the Governor-General from members of vavious parties, dated 3rd October, 1939.

Hādhā Kitāb Majāmiʻ al-manāsik fī nusuk al-ḥajj wa-faḍāʼil al-Ḥaramayn wa-al-Quds wa-al-ḥujjāj wa-al-mujāwir ʻalá al-tafṣīl [microform]

Microfilm.

Saadet-i aile /

Özege, M. S. Eski harflerle,

Muʻjam fī aṣhāb al-Qāḍī al-Imām Abī ʻAlī al-Ṣadafī /

Reprint. Originally published: Matriti, 1885.

Ibn Coteiba's Handbuch der Geschichte.

Arabic text reproduced from handwritten copy.

Buch des Kabus, oder, Lehren des persischen Königs Kjekjawus für seinen Sohn Ghilan Schach : ein Werk für alle Zeitalter aus dem Türkisch-Persisch-Arabischen übersetzt und durch Abhandlungen und Anmerkungen erläutert /

"Auf eigene Kosten" -- t.p.

Tekmilet ül-menasik /

Ottoman Turkish

Kızlara mahsus amelı̂ akaid-i İslâmiye /

"Erkân-ı iman ve İslâmı̂ amelı̂ olarak talim eder."

al-Asmāʼ al-ḥusná mustakhrajah min al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm wa-Kitāb al-Ṭibb al-nabawī, [15th century?].

A work on prophetic medicine (or the Prophet's medicine) by al-Maqdisī (d.1245) preceded by a short treatise of uncertain authorship on the beautiful names of God.

Itinéraire de Constantinople à la Mecque : extrait de l'ouvrage turc intitulé Kitab menassik el-hadj Kitāb manāsik al-ḥajj : livre des prières et des cérémonies relatives au pélerinage imprimé en 1232 (1816-17) /

With notes by Barbié du Bocage and Jomard.

Asker hocasi.

Vols. bear Muslim Era dates.