Between Islam and secularism - Azerbaijan in search of a new cultural identity at the turn of the 19th and 20th c.

general courses

* Familiarizing students with socio-ideological changes in Azerbaijan, taking into account the historical context

* developing the ability to understand the processes taking place in Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century;

* providing students with knowledge about the process of Sovietization in Azerbaijan.

Remote learning

The course will focus on the history of the Azerbaijani nation in the 9th-20th centuries, with particular emphasis on political, social, religious and cultural processes. Much attention is devoted to the development of state-building processes during the First World War. Various ideological trends that formed the national idea of ​​Azerbaijan are discussed. The process and effects of the Sovietization of Azerbaijan are discussed. The lectures also cover the characteristics of the changes related to the cultural revolution related to the Sovietization of the country in the 1920s. During the classes, fragments of literary works, works of art and music are presented. Much attention is paid to the status and role of women in Azerbaijani society

Topics covered during the course:

1. Basic information about the country: society, religion, culture, language, philosophy and literature

2. The Russian conquest. The identity of the borderland in a divided country. Modernism versus Shiism.

3. Formation of the Azerbaijani intelligentsia. Mirza Fatali Achundzade.

4. The birth of the Azerbaijani press. Journal "Molla Nasreddin"

5. Characteristics of the main ideological trends. Panislamiz, Panturkism, Turkism, Azerbaijanism.

6. The birth of the Azerbaijani national movement. First organizations and parties.

7. Intellectual thought of the beginning of the 20th century. The question of language, identity and women's rights.

8. Proclamation and functioning of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918-1920).

9. Azerbaijani political emigration. Ideas, organizations in exile.

10. Sovietization. Cultural revolution in Azerbaijan. Shaping the new citizen.

11. The politics of language in Soviet Azerbaijan. Three alphabets - one language.

12. Modeling the image of a woman in socialist realism.

13. Transformation of traditional rituals into hybrid culture

14. Practicing traditions in Soviet Azerbaijan.

15. Polish-Azerbaijani relations at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Azierbajdzhanskaia Riespublika. Dokumienty i matierialy. 1918-1920 gg, oprac., wstęp Dzhamil Guliev, Баку 1998.

Baberowski, Jörg, Vrag est' viezdie: Stalinizm na Kavkaze, przekł. V. T. Altukhova, Moskva 2010.

Balayev, Aydin, Azierbajdzhanskoie natsional’noie diemokratichieskoie dvizhieniie v 1917-1918 гг., Baku 1998.

- Mamed Emin Rasulzade (1884-1955), Moskva 2009.

- Mamed Emin Rasulzade. Na chuzhykh bieriegakh 1922–1943, Moskwa 2013.

Bennigsen, Alexandre, Wimbush, S. Enders, Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union. A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World, Chicago 1979.

Bennigsen, Alexandre, Lemercier-Quelquejay C., Les mouvements nationaux chez les musulmans de Russie : Le Soultangalievisme au Tatarstan, Paris 1964.

Bennigsen, Alexandre Broxup, Marie, The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State, New York 1983.

Borisova E., (red.), Ekho Sovietskogo Azerbaidzhana. Kovior, vyshyvka, plakat. Katalog vystavki, Moskva 2020.

Chodubski Andrzej, Polacy w Azerbejdżanie, Toruń 2004.

Heyat Farideh., Azeri women in transition. Women in Soviet and post-Soviet Azerbaijan, London/New York 2002.

Maj, Ireneusz Piotr, Działalność Instytutu Wschodniego w Warszawie 1926-1939, Warszawa 2007.

Mamoulia, Georges, The struggle for the independence of the Caucasus: M. E. Resulzade and the Georgians in the promethean movement (1926-1936), „Pro Georgia. Journal of the Kartvelological studies”, t.20, Warszawa 2010, s. 97-111.

Kazimova, Shahla. "Progressive Thoughts in "Molla Nasreddin" Magazine (Initial Period - 1906-1907)." in Oriental studies and arts : contributions dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Majda on His 85th birthday, edited by Agata Bareja-Starzyńska, Kamila Barbara stanek, Marzena Godzińska, Anna Akbike Sulimowicz, Magdalena Szpindler and Joanna Bojarska - Cieślik, 139-149. Warsaw: Wyadwnictwo Akademickie Dialog, 2015.

Kazimova, Sh ., Independence by Muslim communists: "Narimanovshchina", the downfall of national communists in Azerbaijan, “Warsaw East European Revier", IX/2019, Warsaw: Studium Europy Wschodniej, Uniwersytet Warszawski, pp.155-165

Kazimova, Sh ., The Lost Legacy. The little known heritage of Azerbaijani emigration literature in Poland on the example of Mehemmed Emin Resulzade's works, "Rocznik Orientalistyczny" 2018, LXXI, z. 2, pp. 97-104

Kazimova, Sh ., The emancipation policy during the Soviet period in Azerbaijan, "Warsaw East European Revier", VIII/2018, Warsaw: Studium Europy Wschodniej, Uniwersytet Warszawski, pp. 229-236

Mamulia, Georgij, Bor’ba za svobodu i niezavisimost’ Kavkaza (1921-1945), Tbilisi 2012.

Mamulia, Georgij, Abutalibov, Ramiz, Strana ogniej v bor’bie za svobodu i niezavisimost’. Politichieskaia istoriia azierbajdzhanskoj emigratsii 1920-1945 gg., Baku 2014.

Mostashari, Firouzeh, On the religious frontier. Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus, London 2006.

Özcan, Azmi, Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain (1877-1924), Leiden 1997.

Pipes, Richard, The Formation of The Soviet Union. Communism and Nationalism 1917-1923, Cambridge 1970.

Ressul-zade, M. E. Azerbejdżan w walce o niepodległość, Warszawa 1938.

Slocum, John W., Who, and When, Where the Inorodtsy? The Evolution of the Category of “Aliens” in Imperial Russia, “The Russian Review”, nr 57, kwiecień 1998, s. 173-190.

Suny, Ronald Grigor, The Baku Commune, 1917-1918. Class and Nationality in The Russian Revolution, Princeton 1972.

Świętochowski, Tadeusz, Azerbejdżan i Rosja. Kolonializm, islam i narodowość w podzielonym kraju, Warszawa 1998.

- Azerbejdżan, Warszawa 2006.

Knowledge

- has extensive, in-depth knowledge of social structures and relations as well as socio-political processes taking place in Azerbaijan at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (K_W10);

- the student understands the nature of the socio-ideological changes taking place in Azerbaijan in the 20th century and the regularities governing these changes. (K_W03 K_W11)

Has knowledge of the views of the Azerbaijani intelligentsia, has in-depth knowledge of the country's sovietization and related socio-cultural processes K_W03

-Has detailed knowledge of the state of research in the field of selected Azerbaijan issues in Poland and in the world K_W05

Skills:

- the student is able to search, analyze, evaluate, select and use content on various cultural, social and political issues of Azerbaijan (e.g. cultural specificity, the issue of the Azerbaijani intelligentsia, the basis of the emergence of individual ideological trends), using various sources and formulating them on them the basis of critical judgments - K_U01

-can use terms from the history of Azerbaijan in order to analyze and interpret social and political phenomena, as well as differences between the countries of the region (K_U06);

-can analyze the most important phenomena in the history / socio-political / cultural situation of Azerbaijan (K_U11)

Social competence:

- the student sees the possibility of practical use of the knowledge gained in the lecture. He also understands the necessity of further education in this field (K_K01);

- the lecture awakens the student's reflection on cultural differences, teaches political, religious and ethnic tolerance (K_K03 K_K05).

- the classes prepare the student for participation in scientific and political conferences on eastern issues, enable the choice of the future field of professional activity related to this region - in national and local government administration, international institutions, diplomacy, mass media as well as research and expert centers cooperating with Azerbaijan (K_K04 K_K06).

Oral exam: covering material discussed during lectures

Assessment criteria: you can get a total of 6 points, 2 points each for the question (full answer 2 points, incomplete answer but indicating the most important criteria 1 point), passing from 3 points

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