Muslim religious authority in Central Eurasia / edited by Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori, Devin DeWeese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sela, Ron, editor.

Sartori, Paolo, 1975- editor.

DeWeese, Devin A., 1956- editor.

Series:

Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 43.

Brill's Inner Asian library, 1566-7162 ; vol. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Asia, Central--History.

Islam.

Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.

Authority.

Central Asia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 345 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Summary:

"Thirty years after the fall of Soviet power, we are beginning to understand that the experience of Muslims in the USSR continued patterns of adaptation and negotiation known from Muslim history in the lands that became the Soviet Union, and in other regions as well; we can also now understand that the long history of Muslims situating religious authority locally, in the various regions that came under Soviet rule, in fact continued through the Soviet era into post-Soviet times. The present volume is intended to historicize the question of religious authority in Muslim Central Eurasia, through historical and anthropological case studies about the exercise, negotiation, or institutionalization of authority, from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century; it thus seeks to frame Islamic religious history in the areas shaped by Russian and Soviet rule in terms of issues relevant to Muslims themselves, as Muslims, rather than solely in terms of questions of colonial rule. Contributors are Sergei Abashin, Ulfat Abdurasulov, Bakhtiyar Babajanov, Devin DeWeese, Allen J. Frank, Benjamin Gatling, Agn�es Kefeli, Paolo Sartori, Wendell Schwab, Pavel Shabley, Shamil Shikhaliev, and William A. Wood"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Analytical Frameworks and Approaches

The Soviet Union in Islamic Studies Some Reflections on Envisioning the ussr as a Religious Space / Devin DeWeese

pt. 2 Authority Enunciated: The Revival of Religious Discourse in Muslim Eurasia

The Return of Jinn and Angels Repairing Access to Prophetic Authority in Tatarstan / Agnes Kefeli

The Authority of Saintly Narrative Stories about Abuhanifa in Tajikistan / Benjamin Gatling

Mukhamedzhan Tazabek and Popular Islamic Authority in Kazakhstan / Wendell Schwab

pt. 3 Authority Embodied: Lives and Histories of Holy Persons and Lineages

Abd al-Rahman Khalifa and the Contest for Merv A Sufi Shaykh's Authority among the Sariq Turkmens in the igth Century / William A. Wood

Advice from a Holy Man Ishans in Nineteenth-Century Khwarazm / Ulfat Abdurasulov

Shah-i Ahmad al-Sabawi and His Descendants A Tatar Khoja Dynasty in Southern Kazakhstan / Allen J. Frank

Shaykhs of the Sacred Mountain A Local History of Soviet Islam / Sergey Abashin

pt. 4 Authority Mobilized: Religious Institutions and Frameworks for Contestation

The Struggle for Sharva The Empire, the Muftiate, and the Kazakh Steppe in the igth and Early 20th Centuries / Pavel Shabley

Continuities and Complexities of the Islamic Discourse in Daghestan from the 1920s to the 1980s What the Soviets Did Not Know about Their Own Islam / Shamil Shikhaliev

Tell the Mufti Looking for Spiritual Guidance in Soviet Uzbekistan (1960s-1980s) / Bakhtiyar Babajanov.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Muslim religious authority in Central Eurasia

ISBN:

9789004510111

9004510117

OCLC:

1335408328