ACADEMIC INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAM IN COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA: RUDOLF MACÚCH, KAREL PETRÁCEK AND IVAN HRBEK

• Authors: Piricky Gabriel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The research of religions in former Eastern Bloc countries is often presented in terms of a loss of contact with the Western academic tradition and ideological bias. This paper attempts to show however that the study of Islam in individual countries was not homogenous. Islamic Studies in communist Czechoslovakia (1948-1989), although to a significant degreee limited by the ruling atheist ideology as reflected in Marxist- Leninist dogmatism, did not develop in isolation from Western scholarly debates. In fact, major works published in Slovak and Czech language by three respected Islamicists Rudolf M a c ú c h, Karel P e t r á c e k and Ivan H r b e k show clearly that Czechoslovak scholarship on Islam was to a wide extent connected with Western concepts, including the issues of methodology and the Orientalist discourse.

Keywords

EN

CZECHOSLOVAKIA; ISLAM

Discipline

• THEOLOGY: THEOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 93-102
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Piricky Gabriel

• Gabriel Piricky, Institute of Oriental Studies , Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republik

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06468