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One Thousand Years of Islam in Kabarda, by Sufian Zhemukhov

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Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, vol. 49, no. 4 (Spring 2011), pp. 54–71.
© 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved.
ISSN 1061–1959/2011 $9.50 + 0.00.
DOI 10.2753/AAE1061-1959490403

Sufian Zhemukhov

One Thousand Years of Islam in Kabarda
An Experiment in Periodization

Historian Sufian Zhemukhov describes the periodization of Islam in Kabarda (and among Circassians of the North Caucasus) in thirteen stages, beginning with initial proseletyzing by Arabs in the eleventh–thirteenth centuries among the Cherkess.  Focus is on degrees of practice of the “pillars of Islam” at the various stages, with key religious figures in each period named.

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English translation © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., from the Russian text, “Tysiachetetie Islama v Kabarde: opyt periodizatsii.”  Sufian Nasabievich Zhemukhov is a candidate of historical sciences, editor of the newspaper The Voice of Kabarda, and beginning May 2011, visiting scholar at the George Washington Elliot School of International Affairs.  He is also a past fellow of the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and former editor of Kabardino-Balkarskaia Pravda.
Translated by James E. Walker.