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Воображаемая география мусульман колониального Востока: понятия, подходы, проблемы
The article is the author’s contribution to the discussion of contemporary Russian philosophers, historians and social anthropologists on the role of Russia in the mental construction of Orient as the Other by different European intellectuals and politicians at the age of colonial empires. He examines the history of the European concepts of Orient (Orientalism), transfers of colonial knowledge between Russia and other colonial empires, the relationship between Orientology and and Orientalism in Russia, the influence of these metanarratives on Russia’s own Orientalizing Orient. The focus is made on intellectual consequences of deconstruction of Orientalist discourse in postcolonial (and post-Soviet) studies In addition, the author analyzes contemporary heuristic potential of this concept, as well as today’s academic discussion on the relationship of Orientalism and Oriental studies.