Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History Eileen M. Kane

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197605761
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197605769
• Author: Eileen Kane, Masha Kirasirova, Margaret Litvin

The roots of the Arab world’s current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this book presents and contextualizes a set of primary sources translated from Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Persian, French, and Tatar: a 1772 Russian naval officer’s diary, an Arabic slave sale deed from the Caucasus, an interview with a Russian-educated contemporary Syrian novelist, and many more. These archival, autobiographical, and literary sources, all appearing in English for the first time, are introduced by specialists and in some cases by pairs of scholars with complementary language expertise. They highlight connections long obscured by disciplinary cleavages between Slavic and Middle East studies.

Taken together, the thirty-four chapters of this book show how various Russian/Soviet and Arab governments sought to nurture political and cultural ties and expand their influence, often with unplanned results. They reveal the transnational networks of trade, pilgrimage, study, ethnic identity, and political affinity that state policies sometimes fostered and sometimes disrupted. Above all they give voice to some of the resourceful characters who have embodied and exploited Arab-Russian contacts: missionaries and diplomats, soldiers and refugees, students and party activists, scholars, and spies. A set of specially commissioned maps helps orient readers amid the expansion and collapse of empires, border changes, population transfers, and creation of new nation-states that occurred during the two centuries these sources cover.

Table contents:

1. Witness to a New Era: Sergei Pleshcheev’s Diary of a Journey to Syria (1773)
2. Extraterritorial Entanglements: Russian Jewish Migrants in Ottoman Palestine (1830s–1850s)
3. Shi‘i Worlds Interrupted: Waqf and Pilgrimage in Russia’s South Caucasus (1863–1876)
4. An Egyptian Teacher Heads to St. Petersburg: al-Tantawi’s Gift of the Wise in the Account of the Land of Russia (1840)
5. With the Tsar’s Imprimatur: A Slave Sale Deed from Russia’s North Caucasus (1864)
6. Population Transfer: Negotiating the Resettlement of Chechen Refugees in the Ottoman Empire (1865, 1870)
7. Russianizing Palestine: Vasilii Khitrovo’s A Week in Palestine (1876) and the Charter of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1889)
8. Manufacturing Russian Attachments to Palestine (1894–1903)
9. Orthodoxy across Borders: Maps of the Institutions of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IPPO)
10. A Reluctant Native Informant: Shakirdzhan Ishaev’s Journey to Mecca (1896)
11. Quarantine Politics and the Hajj: Dr. Zabolotnyi’s Mission to the Red Sea (1897)
12. Saluting Russia’s Islamic Modernists in the Cairo and Beirut Arabic Press (1899)
13. Russian and Soviet Oil Exports to the Persian Gulf (1903–1933)
14. Memo to Stalin: Lev Karakhan’s Argument for Establishing Soviet Diplomatic Ties with the Hejaz (1923)
15. Soviet Muslims at the Congress of the Muslim World in Mecca (1926)
16. Arabic in the Early Soviet Caucasus: Nadhir al-Durgili’s The Delight of Minds in the Biographies of Dagestani Scholars (1920s–1930s)
17. From Syrian Communist to Soviet Orientalist: Taha Sawwaf in the Comintern Files (1935–1953)
18. Wartime Schism in the Iraqi Communist Party: A Coded Letter to Moscow (1944)
19. Armenian Immigration to the USSR from Arab Countries (1946–1949)
20. The Abandoned Comrades: Egyptian Communists’ Pleas to the USSR (1953–1954)
21. Revisiting Russia after Fifty Years: Mikhail Naimy’s Beyond Moscow and Washington (1959)
22. From Nazareth to Moscow: Kulthum ‘Awda-Vasilieva’s “Happy Life” in Russia (1927, 1937, 1965)
23. Statistics on Arab Students in the USSR (1959–1991)
24. Should Dormitory Bathrooms Have Doors? Zakaria Turki’s An Upper Egyptian among the Russians (1967–1972)
25. A Communist Mourning Icon: Mahmoud Sabri, Iraqi Art Student in Moscow (1960)
26. Soviet Yerevan’s Outreach to Armenians in Lebanon (1967–1969)
27. Lotus Magazine: Soviet-Supported Afro-Asian Literary Transnationalism (1969–1970)
28. No Soviet Engineer to Walk in Front of an Egyptian One: Youssef Chahine’s Two High Dam Films (1968 and 1970/2)
29. Soviet Advisers in Egypt before, during, and after Their “Expulsion” (1972)
30. Ba‘thists in Baku: Iraq-Syria Tensions Come to the USSR (1975–1977)
31. Two Soviet Responses to Frantz Fanon (1978–1979)
32. Aeroflot Routes to Baghdad: Soviet-Iraqi Relations during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1981)
33. Aleksandr Yakovlev’s Notes from His Conversation with the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the Soviet Union (November 26, 1990)
34. “The Intellectual Is a Hybrid Creature”: Khalil Alrez’s The Russian Quarter (2019)
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index

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