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This is a 1990 JPRS report distributed by the Central Intelligence Agency. It translates the English summaries of major articles from the Soviet journal Narody Azii i Afriki, No 4, July to August 1989. The topics include small business policy in Asia, non-capitalist development in Central Asia, the Truman Doctrine and Turkey, pre-Islamic Turkic religions and al-Mawardi. One article, by A.D. Dikaryov, looks at how Chinese UFO enthusiasts search ancient Chinese sources for historical evidence of UFOs.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1990 ## Document 4 of 8 included in its turn some features of zoroastrianism. 24. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VIEWS OF ABU-L-HASAN AL-MAWARDI (NEW TRENDS OF STUDIES) ## 25. A.A. IGNATENKO 26. Works created by this eminent Moslem medieval lawyer, expert on problems of the state, have been studied for a long time by orientalists. Modern islamists interpret the heritage of al-Mawardi, this distinguished theorist of the Islamic state--caliphate, as being purely theocratic concept. 27. The notion of ''concord'' (ulfa) takes a key place in his concept aimed at giving explanation to the existence and functioning of society. This ''concord'' is necessary for people to receive ''sufficient matter of their life'' in the course of ''development of the world'' (imara). Human society is considered by the medieval theorist to be innerly differentiated: ''unity in difference'' is a pre-condition of ''union'' (i'tilaf) of people performing various functions in the process of ''development of the world'' (tillage, handicraft etc.) and therefore needing one another. 28. Mutual hostility inherent in people by nature requires the existence of power to consolidate this union using the 'religion' (din). Al-Mawardi reconsiders the notion of 'religion' interpreting it as any set of society-organizing norms and rules, including even dishonesty' (kufr) if it performs the function of uniting people. Norms of the 'religion' interpreted in this way are obligatory both for subjects and the sovereign (malik), the supreme ruler who is to take measures to ensure the community life. 29. The article calls in question the authorship of the ''Sermon to sovereigns,''' a well-known treatise whose manuscript is kept in the National Library of Paris, traditionally attributed to al-Mawardi. 30. ROLE OF SCALES OF TIME AND SPACE IN MODELLING OF HISTORICAL PROCESS ## 31. G.S. POMERANTS 32. Rationality or irrationality of the history depends to a considerable extent on the scale applied to it. This idea was put forward in 1784 by E. Kant who noted the trend to all-world political unification. F. Schlegel, leaning upon the Indian experience, argued that there were no planetary time; each great culture went the way from revelation to rational constructions leading to a loss of creative impulse and to a decline. The model by Kant, in the final
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.