‘Ali al-Ghumuqi (Kayaev) as the Historian of Caucasus’ Muslim Peoples
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2020-16-3-119-143
Abstract
The paper is an attempt at writing of the new conceptual biography of a renowned Muslim reformist leader in late tsarist and early Soviet Caucasus. After ‘Ali al- Ghumuqi more known under the name of Kayaev (1878–1943) from the Dagestani village of Ghumuq fell the victim of the Stalinist political repressions and then was gradually rehabilitated, historians often presented him a leftist journalist and politician close to the Bolsheviks, sometimes also a bibliophile who collected one of the largest private libraries of Muslim Oriental manuscripts and documents. Seriously revising this not very correct image the authors of this article investigate rather his academic research activities that allow rethinking Kayaev as a Muslim historian revisionist. The focus is made on his Oriental source studies that traced the future development of the famous Dagestani school of academic Oriental studies in the twentieth century, as well as on Kayaev’s original treatment of Muslim historiography he considered through the lenses of Muslim peoples’ development as principal historical actors.
About the Authors
V. O. Bobrovnikov
Research Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Social Processes, Saint Petersburg State University; Institute for Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir O. BOBROVNIKOV, Cand. Sci. (Hist.), research fellow, Department of Central Asia, Caucasus and the Volga- Ural region,
11, Universitetskaya emb., St. Petersburg, 199034
12, Rozhdestvenka Str., Moscow, 107031
M. I. Kayaev
Dagestan State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Miqdad I. KAYAEV, student, faculty of history
8, Korkmasova Str., Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367008
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Bobrovnikov V.O., Kayaev M.I. ‘Ali al-Ghumuqi (Kayaev) as the Historian of Caucasus’ Muslim Peoples. Islam in the modern world. 2020;16(3):119-143. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2020-16-3-119-143
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