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4/16/07

SLU HISTORY PROF'S BOOK CELEBRATED BY LIBRARIES GROUP

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries at St. Lawrence University will celebrate the publication of Assistant Professor of History Michael Kemper's book Herrschaft, Recht and Islam in Daghestan: Von den Khanaten and Gemeindebunden zum gihad-Staat ("Political Rule, Law and Islam in Daghestan: From the Khanates and Community Federations to the Jihad State") on Friday, April 27, at 4 p.m. in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

In the book, Kemper discusses the Islamic jihad of the North Caucasian mountaineers against the Russian colonial encroachment in the context of the longstanding tradition of Islamic legal scholarship and the history of Islamic rule in the region itself. The work is based on a wide array of Arabic sources from the North Caucasus, as well as on military documentation and scholarly works in the Russian language.

Kemper, who joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 2005, earned his master's degree in Islamic, Oriental and Slavic studies and the Ph.D. in Islamic studies at Bochum University in Germany. He speaks several languages and is the author of additional works, as well as co-editor of the forthcoming book Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and the CIS.

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More information: Humanities at St. Lawrence

Profile of Michael Kemper

Faculty Scholarship