'Pre-Islamic Survivals' in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective

by R. Charles Weller

Book Overview

The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural 'survivals' from the late 19th-century theories of E.B. Tylor, James Frazer, and others, in debate with monotheistic 'degenerationists' and Protestant anti-Catholic polemicists, back to its origins in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions as well as later more secularized forms in the German Enlightenment and Romanticist movements. These historical sources, particularly the 'dual faith'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811956960
• ISBN13: 9789811956966
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"