Dagestan and the Muslim East. Collected essays in honour of Prof. Amri R. Shikhsaidov (1928 - )

An edition of collected essays in honour of Prof. Amri R. Shikhsaidov, related to the historical and social scope of  Islam in Dagestan.

Among issues are the Arab conquest of Dagestan, Islamization of the Eastern Caucasus, transformation of the cult, original Arabic traditions, local laws and authorities, role of the Islamic educational system in the national elite forming, changes of the rural communities in Post-Soviet period.  

Local mysticism, epigraphic and manuscript traditions from the perspective cultural and political interrelations between Caucasus, Near and Middle East are another angle.

 

Amri R. Shikhsaidov, Prof. (b. 1928, Derbent) is a specialist in the study, cataloging and publishing of early manuscripts and epigraphic texts in Arabic and Dagestani languages, who was a member of more than 50 expeditions and described about 300 private and mosque collections of manuscripts spanning 12^th – 20^th centuries.

He is an author of more than 16 monographs on the history and culture of Dagestan, including Islam in medieval Dagestan: 7^th – 14^th centuries (1969), Dagestan in 10^th – 14^th centuries. A historical and social review (1975), Epigraphic data of the 10^th-18^th centuries Dagestan (1984), Arabic manuscript tradition in Dagestan (2001, in co-authorship with Natalia A. Tagirova and Diana H. Gadjieva)

Dagestan and the Muslim East. Collected essays in honour of Prof. Amri R. Shikhsaidov (1928 - )/ ed. Аlikber K. Alikberov and Vladimir O. Bobrovnikov. Moscow: The Mardjani Publishing House, 2010.  ISBN 978-5-903715-24-4