Books

A study of the Daghestani scholar ʿAlī al-Ghumūqī (Ali Kaiaev) and his account of the revolutionary year, together with annotated translations of his writings. The book gives readers a vernacular view of 1917 from inside the Muslim scholarly community of the North Caucasus.

How did Armenian intellectuals read the revolutions of 1917? The book follows their debates over the Bolshevik formula of peace without annexations, the fate of Turkish Armenia and the shape of a future Armenian state, drawing on the periodical press of Tiflis, Baku and Yerevan.

This book explores how the Muslim scholars of Daghestan, an important Muslim region within Russia, experienced the 1917 Russian Revolution and how they attempted to gain religious and political authority in the new post-imperial environment.

Covering the period between the February Revolution and the first mass repressions of the scholars of Islam, it challenges the view that relations between Muslim reformers and Bolsheviks were simply antagonistic. Relations were pragmatic rather than ideological: there was cooperation on modern education and language policy, alliances against assumed common threats, and disagreement over atheism and class struggle.