TY - JOUR

T1 - EAST OR WEST, UTOPIA IS BEST: QARMATIAN SOCIETY IN COMPARISON TO EUROPEAN UTOPIAS

AU - Кузнецов, Алексей Денисович

PY - 2022/12/29

Y1 - 2022/12/29

N2 - he article examines the society of the ‘Abu Sa’idis (Arabian Qarmatians), comparing it to the societies of Western utopian projects. It is demonstrated that the Qarmatians had many common elements with European Utopias: manipulating religious tenets for the state’s needs (as in Plato’s Republic), promotion of the crafts (T. More’s Utopia), certain forms of communal property and social welfare (Dukhobors’ and socialists’ projects), etc. The elements pertaining only to the Qarmatian republic are also elaborated on, and it is noted that the state’s reliance on tariffs, slavery and piracy, while decidedly dystopian in the modern times, is more explicable in the historical context, that this ensured the society lasting longer than the other Utopias. Finally, further research into the subject is encouraged.

AB - he article examines the society of the ‘Abu Sa’idis (Arabian Qarmatians), comparing it to the societies of Western utopian projects. It is demonstrated that the Qarmatians had many common elements with European Utopias: manipulating religious tenets for the state’s needs (as in Plato’s Republic), promotion of the crafts (T. More’s Utopia), certain forms of communal property and social welfare (Dukhobors’ and socialists’ projects), etc. The elements pertaining only to the Qarmatian republic are also elaborated on, and it is noted that the state’s reliance on tariffs, slavery and piracy, while decidedly dystopian in the modern times, is more explicable in the historical context, that this ensured the society lasting longer than the other Utopias. Finally, further research into the subject is encouraged.

KW - карматы

KW - Абу Саиды

KW - утопия

KW - Томас Мор

KW - Духоборы

KW - средневековая Аравия

M3 - Article

VL - 2

SP - 65

EP - 70

JO - Студенческий форум

JF - Студенческий форум

IS - 43(222)

ER -