Soviet and Muslim
Title | Soviet and Muslim PDF eBook |
Author | Eren Tasar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190652101 |
World War II and Islamically informed Soviet patriotism -- Institutionalizing Soviet Islam, 1944-1958 -- SADUM's new ambitions, 1943-1958 -- The anti-religious campaign, 1959-1964 -- The muftiate on the international stage -- The Brezhnev Era and its aftermath, 1965-1989
Islam in the Soviet Union
Title | Islam in the Soviet Union PDF eBook |
Author | Yaacov Ro'i |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 798 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Islam |
ISBN | 9780231119542 |
Based largely on official Soviet archive material, this study describes and analyses all aspects of Islam which relate to the Soviet domestic scene, with the purpose of demonstrating how it survived in the face of Soviet repression and secularisation.
Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
Title | Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union PDF eBook |
Author | Bayram Balci |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019091727X |
Provides a sophisticated account of both the internal dynamics and external influences in the evolution of Islam in the region
Moscow's Muslim Challenge
Title | Moscow's Muslim Challenge PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Rywkin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-07-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1315490889 |
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.
Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union
Title | Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandre A. Bennigsen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 1980-09-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226042367 |
In this study, Bennigsen and Wimbush trace the development of the doctrine of national communism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the heart of this doctrine—as elaborated by the Volga Tatar, Mir-Said Sultan Galiev—was the concept of "proletarian nations," as opposed to the traditional notion of a working class. With such ideological innovations, Sultan Galiev and his contemporaries were able to reconcile Marxist nationalisms and Islam and devise an "Eastern strategy" whereby the national revolution was to be spread. The authors show that the ideas of Muslim national communism persist in the land of their birth and have spread to such developing societies as China, Algeria, and Indonesia. This doctrine is an important factor in the ideological split and increasing tensions between industrial and nonindustrial nations, East and West, and now North and South, which grip the world communist movement.
Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Title | Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan PDF eBook |
Author | Johan Rasanayagam |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2010-11-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1139495267 |
The Uzbekistan government has been criticized for its brutal suppression of its Muslim population. This 2011 book, which is based on the author's intimate acquaintance with the region and several years of ethnographic research, is about how Muslims in this part of the world negotiate their religious practices despite the restraints of a stifling authoritarian regime. Fascinatingly, the book also shows how the restrictive atmosphere has actually helped shape the moral context of people's lives, and how understandings of what it means to be a Muslim emerge creatively out of lived experience.
For Prophet and Tsar
Title | For Prophet and Tsar PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Crews |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2009-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674262859 |
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.