Parts of Islamic Studies (8)

In this paper, the writer is going to provide a report of three articles: The first one is the translation of Harun Yilmaz’s article in which he studies historiographical conflict over the independent identity of Azerbaijan during Soviet’s communist government domination over this country. Yilmaz also looks into the identity politics and the limitations of Communist party in writing of history; and has a brief explanation about the multi-national and sometimes contradictory identity of historiography policies of Soviet government. The translator examines the content of different parts of the paper. The second one is the translation of Valerie Hoffman’s article in which she explains about Oman Ibādīs’ intellectual and political developments, and their believes regarding Ilm-e Kalām. And the third one is the translation of Aftandil- Erkinov’sarticle in which hespeaks of Muhammad Rahim Khan’s cultural policies and activities as a cultural and political renaissance to confront the attackers after this territory was conqured by Russia in 1973. He especially focused on the works available in Khiva Library and its structure. Having explained the geographical features and historical condition of Khiva, he describes how Muhammad Rahim Khan formed his policies in order to support the production of books and texts which could be considered as a protective wall against Russian cultural influence.