TY - GEN
T1 - Return to the source
T2 - The republics of Central Asia and the Middle East
AU - Israeli, Raphael
PY - 1994/1/1
Y1 - 1994/1/1
N2 - The present resurgence of the Muslim nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus, following the dismantling of the Soviet Union, has raised the question of the future course that these emerging states are likely to pursue. In other words, one wonders whether their long integration into Russian, and then Soviet, cultures had lent to them a European (though totalitarian) political culture; or rather, as soon as the yoke of their alien rulers is shaken off, they are likely to revert to their Islamic waterspring. Judging from the experience of other Islamic societies, who have undergone ‘revolutions’ of all sorts (e.g. the Arab World, and more recently Afghanistan), or a process of modernization under European aegis (e.g. Algeria, Sudan and much of the Arab world), the newly emerging Central Asian nations may very well be trekking their way back to the heart of the Islamic world. Is this process tenable and sustainable in the light (or obscurity) of the struggles in the Middle East between various trends of thought which have been attempting to sway these new nations into their respective orbits.
AB - The present resurgence of the Muslim nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus, following the dismantling of the Soviet Union, has raised the question of the future course that these emerging states are likely to pursue. In other words, one wonders whether their long integration into Russian, and then Soviet, cultures had lent to them a European (though totalitarian) political culture; or rather, as soon as the yoke of their alien rulers is shaken off, they are likely to revert to their Islamic waterspring. Judging from the experience of other Islamic societies, who have undergone ‘revolutions’ of all sorts (e.g. the Arab World, and more recently Afghanistan), or a process of modernization under European aegis (e.g. Algeria, Sudan and much of the Arab world), the newly emerging Central Asian nations may very well be trekking their way back to the heart of the Islamic world. Is this process tenable and sustainable in the light (or obscurity) of the struggles in the Middle East between various trends of thought which have been attempting to sway these new nations into their respective orbits.
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U2 - 10.1080/02634939408400847
DO - 10.1080/02634939408400847
M3 - מאמר בכתב עת
AN - SCOPUS:0028579532
SN - 0263-4937
VL - 13
SP - 19
EP - 31
JO - Central Asian Survey
JF - Central Asian Survey
ER -