Politicizing Islam in Central Asia
Title | Politicizing Islam in Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Collins |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 585 |
Release | 2023-06-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0197685080 |
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.
Politicizing Islam
Title | Politicizing Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Z. Fareen Parvez |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017-01-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190651172 |
Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism. In Politicizing Islam, Fareen Parvez offers an in-depth look at how Muslims have responded to these crises, focusing on Islamic revival movements in the French city of Lyon and the Indian city of Hyderabad. Presenting a novel comparative view of middle-class and poor Muslims in both cities, Parvez illuminates how Muslims from every social class are denigrated but struggle in different ways to improve their lives and make claims on the state. In Hyderabad's slums, Muslims have created vibrant political communities, while in Lyon's banlieues they have retreated into the private sphere. Politicizing Islam elegantly explains how these divergent reactions originated in India's flexible secularism and France's militant secularism and in specific patterns of Muslim class relations in both cities. This fine-grained ethnography pushes beyond stereotypes and has consequences for burning public debates over Islam, feminism, and secular democracy.
Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia
Title | Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Collins |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 2006-04-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113946177X |
This book is a study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. Exploring the social, economic, and historical roots of clans, and their political role and political transformation in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, it argues that clans are informal political actors that are critical to understanding politics in this region. The book demonstrates that the Soviet system was far less successful in transforming and controlling Central Asian society, and in its policy of eradicating clan identities, than has often been assumed. In order to understand Central Asian politics and their economies, scholars and policy makers must take into account the powerful role of these informal groups, how they adapt and change over time, and how they may constrain or undermine democratization in this strategic region.
We God's People
Title | We God's People PDF eBook |
Author | Jocelyne Cesari |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 765 |
Release | 2021-12-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108604080 |
Cesari argues that both religious and national communities are defined by the three Bs: belief, behaviour and belonging. By focusing on the ways in which these three Bs intersect, overlap or clash, she identifies the patterns of the politicization of religion, and vice versa, in any given context. Her approach has four advantages: firstly, it combines an exploration of institutional and ideational changes across time, which are usually separated by disciplinary boundaries. Secondly, it illustrates the heuristic value of combining qualitative and quantitative methods by statistically testing the validity of the patterns identified in the qualitative historical phase of the research. Thirdly, it avoids reducing religion to beliefs by investigating the significance of the institution-ideas connections, and fourthly, it broadens the political approach beyond state-religion relations to take into account actions and ideas conveyed in other arenas such as education, welfare, and culture.
Islam: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Islam: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Malise Ruthven |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2012-01-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0199642877 |
Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant forms, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand its nature. Malise Ruthven's Very Short Introduction, offers essential insights into the big issues, provides fresh perspectives on contemporary questions, and guides us through the complex debates.
Under Caesar's Sword
Title | Under Caesar's Sword PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Philpott |
Publisher | Law and Christianity |
Pages | 537 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108425305 |
The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.
Islam and Central Asia
Title | Islam and Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | R. Z. Sagdeev |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political Science |
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