Soviet and Muslim
The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991
Seiten
2017
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-065210-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-065210-4 (ISBN)
Rather than merely "surviving" Soviet rule, Islam in Central Asia shaped, and was shaped by, the social and political context of Communism. Relying on recently declassified Central Asian archival sources, most of them never seen before by historians, Soviet and Muslim offers a radical new reading of Islam's resilience and evolution under atheist rule.
Central Asia was the sole Muslim region of the former Russian Empire that lacked a centralized Islamic organization, or muftiate. When Soviet leader Joseph Stalin created such a body for the region as part of his religious reforms during World War II, he acknowledged that the Muslim faith could enjoy some legal protection under Communist rule. From a skeletal and disorganized body run by one family of Islamic scholars out of a modest house in Tashkent's old city, this muftiate acquired great political importance in the eyes of Soviet policymakers and equally significant symbolic significance for many Muslims.
Relying on recently declassified Central Asian archival sources, most of them never seen before by historians, Eren Tasar argues that Islam did not merely "survive" the decades from World War II until the Soviet collapse in 1991, but actively shaped the political and social context of Soviet Central Asia. Muslim figures, institutions, and practices evolved in response to the social and political reality of Communist rule. Through an analysis that spans all aspects of Islam under Soviet rule-from debates about religion inside the Communist Party, to the muftiate's efforts to acquire control over mosques across Central Asia, changes in Islamic practices and dogma, and overseas propaganda targeting the Islamic World-Soviet and Muslim offers a radical new reading of Islam's resilience and evolution under atheism.
Central Asia was the sole Muslim region of the former Russian Empire that lacked a centralized Islamic organization, or muftiate. When Soviet leader Joseph Stalin created such a body for the region as part of his religious reforms during World War II, he acknowledged that the Muslim faith could enjoy some legal protection under Communist rule. From a skeletal and disorganized body run by one family of Islamic scholars out of a modest house in Tashkent's old city, this muftiate acquired great political importance in the eyes of Soviet policymakers and equally significant symbolic significance for many Muslims.
Relying on recently declassified Central Asian archival sources, most of them never seen before by historians, Eren Tasar argues that Islam did not merely "survive" the decades from World War II until the Soviet collapse in 1991, but actively shaped the political and social context of Soviet Central Asia. Muslim figures, institutions, and practices evolved in response to the social and political reality of Communist rule. Through an analysis that spans all aspects of Islam under Soviet rule-from debates about religion inside the Communist Party, to the muftiate's efforts to acquire control over mosques across Central Asia, changes in Islamic practices and dogma, and overseas propaganda targeting the Islamic World-Soviet and Muslim offers a radical new reading of Islam's resilience and evolution under atheism.
Eren Tasar is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1: World War II and Islamically Informed Soviet Patriotism
Chapter 2: Institutionalizing Soviet Islam, 1944-1958
Chapter 3: SADUM's New Ambitions, 1943-1958
Chapter 4: The Anti-Religious Campaign, 1959-1964
Chapter 5: The Muftiate on the International Stage
Chapter 6: The Brezhnev Era and its Aftermath, 1965-1989
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Religion and Global Politics |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 164 x 243 mm |
Gewicht | 708 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-065210-1 / 0190652101 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-065210-4 / 9780190652104 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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