Islam In Politics In Russia And Central Asia

Author : Stephane A. Dudolgnon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136888853
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia written by Stephane A. Dudolgnon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. This volume contains the proceedings of the international colloquium held by the IAS Project in October 1999. These papers deal with the modem and contemporary history of Central Eurasia, for a comprehensive reflection on various phenomena that led to a political valuation of Islam under non-Muslim domination, whether Russian or Chinese, since the beginning of the 18th century. A comparative approach to the current situations in the Russian Federation and the newly independent states of Central Asia has allowed us to study the various modes of the political instrumentalization of Islam, by both political power and opposition, in such various areas as the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan and the Volga-Urals region of Russia.

Author : Shireen Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315290111
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security written by Shireen Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly detailed study traces the shared history of Russia and Islam in expanding compass - from the Tatar civilization within the Russian heartland, to the conquered territories of the Caucasus and Central Asia, to the larger geopolitical and security context of contemporary Russia on the civilizational divide. The study's distinctive analytical drive stresses political and geopolitical relationships over time and into the very complicated present. Rich with insight, the book is also an incomparable source of factual information about Russia's Muslim populations, religious institutions, political organizations, and ideological movements.

Author : Robert D. Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262859
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Prophet and Tsar written by Robert D. Crews and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-31 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia occupies a unique position in the Muslim world. Unlike any other non-Islamic state, it has ruled Muslim populations for over five hundred years. Though Russia today is plagued by its unrelenting war in Chechnya, Russia’s approach toward Islam once yielded stability. In stark contrast to the popular “clash of civilizations” theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Robert D. Crews reveals the remarkable ways in which Russia constructed an empire with broad Muslim support. In the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great inaugurated a policy of religious toleration that made Islam an essential pillar of Orthodox Russia. For ensuing generations, tsars and their police forces supported official Muslim authorities willing to submit to imperial directions in exchange for defense against brands of Islam they deemed heretical and destabilizing. As a result, Russian officials assumed the powerful but often awkward role of arbitrator in disputes between Muslims. And just as the state became a presence in the local mosque, Muslims became inextricably integrated into the empire and shaped tsarist will in Muslim communities stretching from the Volga River to Central Asia. For Prophet and Tsar draws on police and court records, and Muslim petitions, denunciations, and clerical writings—not accessible prior to 1991—to unearth the fascinating relationship between an empire and its subjects. As America and Western Europe debate how best to secure the allegiances of their Muslim populations, Crews offers a unique and critical historical vantage point.

Author : Lena Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789171839589
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Islam and Conflicts in Russia and Central Asia written by Lena Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helene Carrere D'Encausse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520065048
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and the Russian Empire written by Helene Carrere D'Encausse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A particularly valuable work. In my judgment, it contains the best account of nineteenth-century Muslim societies in Central Asia. It is, I think, indispensable to an understanding of the events that followed."--Ira Lapidus, co-editor of Islam, Politics and Social Movements

Author : Adeeb Khalid
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957865
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam after Communism written by Adeeb Khalid and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these questions. Arguing that the sustained Soviet assault on Islam destroyed patterns of Islamic learning and thoroughly de-Islamized public life, Khalid demonstrates that Islam became synonymous with tradition and was subordinated to powerful ethnonational identities that crystallized during the Soviet period. He shows how this legacy endures today and how, for the vast majority of the population, a return to Islam means the recovery of traditions destroyed under Communism. Islam after Communism reasons that the fear of a rampant radical Islam that dominates both Western thought and many of Central Asia’s governments should be tempered with an understanding of the politics of antiterrorism, which allows governments to justify their own authoritarian policies by casting all opposition as extremist. Placing the Central Asian experience in the broad comparative perspective of the history of modern Islam, Khalid argues against essentialist views of Islam and Muslims and provides a nuanced and well-informed discussion of the forces at work in this crucial region.

Author : Rywkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315490889
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow's Muslim Challenge written by Rywkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is one of Russia's most turbulent and misunderstood minority regions.

Author : Kathleen Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197685080
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicizing Islam in Central Asia written by Kathleen Collins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups. Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam. Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In Politicizing Islam in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements-first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization, she explains the strategies and relative success of each Central Asian Islamist movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam, by Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, together with the diffusion of religious ideologies, motivated Islamist mobilization. Sweeping in scope, this book traces the dynamics of Central Asian Islamist movements from the Soviet era through the Tajik civil war, the Afghan jihad against the US, and the foreign fighter movement joining the Syrian jihad.

Author : Dale F. Eickelman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208231
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russia's Muslim Frontiers written by Dale F. Eickelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: the differing approaches of the U.S. and the [former] Soviet Union to Middle East policy, Central Asia, and South Asia . . . provide grounds for self-criticism and the exploration of new directions." —John L. Esposito ". . . recommended highly for its expert analyses of political Islam." —Journal of Third World Studies Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars appraise recent political and religious developments among Russia's Muslim neighbors.

Author : L. R. Polonskai︠a︡
Publisher : Ithaca Press (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Central Asia written by L. R. Polonskai︠a︡ and published by Ithaca Press (GB). This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The policy of Islam and Muslims under the Communist regime, the recent renaissance of Islamic culture in the region, and the influence of Islam in politics during the break-up of the USSR are also discussed. The book concludes with a look to the future, evaluating the position of the emergent Muslim states in Central Asia, and their relationship to the new Russian state.