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The ancient Chechen nation has been living in its idyllic homeland in the North Caucasus for thousands of years, building states, creating its own civilization, and forging relations and interacting with other Caucasian and Near Eastern civilizations.
The only comprehensive treatment of the subject available in English, this book provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people, and to some little known and rarely considered aspects of Chechen culture, including customs and traditions, folklore, arts and architecture, music and literature. The Chechens also includes:
- Chechen history from ancient times, providing sketches of archaic religions and civilizations;
- the present political situation in Chechnya;
- the esoteric social structure and the brand of Sufism peculiar to the Chechens;
- analysis of Chechen media development since the early twentieth century, and of the short-lived Chechen film industry; images of the Chechens carried by Russian and Western medias;
- a section on proverbs and sayings;
- appendices detailing social structure, the native pantheon, bibliographies and periodicals pertaining to the Chechens and Chechnya, and a lexicographic listing;
- a comprehensive bibliography, with many entries in English, for further reading.
This handbook should prove a corrective to the negative stereotypes that have come to be associated with the Chechens and put a human face back on one of the noblestyet least understoodof nations. This book is an indispensable and accessible resource for all those with an interest in Chechnya.
Amjad Jaimoukha is Assistant President of the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. Educated in England, he has written a number of books and articles, including TheCircassians (also published by RoutledgeCurzon), KabardianEnglish Dictionary, TheCycles of the Circassian Nart Epic and Circassian Proverbs and Sayings. He is also a member of the Central Eurasian Studies Society at Harvard University.
This series of handbooks provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the many peoples and languages of the Caucasus. Each handbook includes chapters written by experts in the field, covering all aspects of the people, including their history, religion, politics, economy, culture, literature and media, plus pictures, chronologies and appendices of up-to-date statistics, maps and bibliographies. Each volume in the Peoples of the Caucasus series will be an indispensable resource to all those with an interest in the Caucasus.
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First published 2005 by RoutledgeCurzon 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeCurzon 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
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2005 Amjad Jaimoukha
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Principal towns and cities in Chechnya
Girls at (secluded) fountain being serenaded by men on ancient and modern ponders
Ancient stone relief of a man
Istang showing common patterns
Dagger and belt on a burka
A tower village high up in the mountains
The medieval Georgian-style Christian-cum-pagan Tkhaba- Yerdi temple
Illi, or Dancing Grandson, a wood-carving by I.Dutaev
sambaev performing one of his own exotic choreographies
Since 1722, the Chechens have struggled against successive Russian regimes in a bloody cycle of invasion, resistance, bloodshed and deportation. The bitter winter of 1944 saw the wholesale deportation of the Chechens to Central Asia and Siberia, many in cattle trucks, while those in the mountains who could or would not be moved were burnt alive in their villages. Their land was literally erased from the Soviet maps. The following decades saw the Chechens rebuild their land until, in 1991, they declared themselves a sovereign nation. But, with grim inevitability, wars with Russia followed in 1994 and 1999, resulting in the razing of Chechnya. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote, describing the conditions in the Soviet gulags: There was one nation that would not give in, would not acquire the mental habits of submissionand not just individual rebels among them, but the whole nation to a man. These were the Chechens.
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