A preliminary to decolonizing the historiography of Shaykh Mansur

Middle Eastern Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 191-202

  Gammer, Moshe ^a  

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DOI: 10.1080/00263209608701098     Document Type: Review

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10. See note 3.
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12. Venturi identifies its author as Filippo Buonarroti - ibid., p.98.
13. Edmund Spenser, The Prophet of the Caucasus. An Historical Romance of Krim Tartary (London, 1840). Also in Russia the romantic figure of Mansur inspired a novel - V.I. Savinov, Shikh Mansur. Vostochnyi roman v chetyrekh chast'iakh (St. Petersburg, 1853).
14. Edmund Spenser, The Prophet of the Caucasus. An Historical Romance of Krim Tartary (London, 1840). Also in Russia the romantic figure of Mansur inspired a novel - V.I. Savinov, Shikh Mansur. Vostochnyi roman v chetyrekh chast'iakh (St. Petersburg, 1853).
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25. For this process, see Lowel R. Tillet, The Great Friendship. Soviet Historians on the Non-Russian Nalionalities(Chapel Hill, 1969).
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42. Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor of Haifa University at a Departmental postgraduate seminar at Tel Aviv University, Department of Middle Eastern and African History. I am grateful to Prof. Ben-Dor for copies of two drafts of his lecture. Both were used in this quotation.