| Titre | Ислам и русская культура XVIII века [Опыт историко-эпистемологического исследования*] | |
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| Auteur | Mark Batunskij | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 27, no 1, janvier-mars 1986 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 45-69 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Mark Batunskii, Islam and Russian culture in the eighteenth century.
If Russian historians are to be believed, even before the Slavs were converted to Christianism, the pagan Slavic culture was opposed to "Asia." After the Russians have been baptized, this opposition turned into "unconditional Islamophobia": Culture and the Good were represented by Orthodoxy and Russia, whereas Islam stood for Barbarism and Anticulture. Such was the Manichean vision of the Muscovites until the advent of the Empire of Peter the Great. As a matter of fact, in the eighteenth century, Russia became a multinational and multireligious Empire, but in the eyes of the intellectual Russian elite, the East - particularly the Muslim East - remained the symbol of Barbarism and a Tatar, the model of boundless cruelty, deceitfulness and cold-blooded wickedness. "The Tatars, said Pushkin, brought us neither algebra nor Aristotle." Orthodox theology added to this image the belief that Muslims knew nothing about God or moral principles. The theme representing Russia as a shield, sacrificing itself in order to protect the German-Latin civilization of Central and Western Europe appeared in the eighteenth century.
But at the same time, under the influence of Western literature, the theme of Muslim East began to make its way, among Russian novelists and poets. It is also during the eighteenth century that were laid the foundations of the scientific Russian Orientalism. The first Russian translation of the Coran dates from 1716. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1986_num_27_1_2064 |
