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 ; Volume 43.

Brill's Inner Asian Library ; Volume 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Asia, Central--History.

Islam.

Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.

Authority.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2023]

Language Note:

English

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, Agnès Kefeli, Paolo Sartori, Wendell Schwab, Pavel Shabley, Shamil Shikhaliev, and William A. Wood.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Copyright page

Acknowledgments

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori, Devin DeWeese

The Soviet Union in Islamic Studies / Devin DeWeese

The Return of Jinn and Angels / Agnès Kefeli

The Authority of Saintly Narrative / Benjamin Gatling

Mukhamedzhan Tazabek and Popular Islamic Authority in Kazakhstan / Wendell Schwab

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Khalīfa and the Contest for Merv / William A. Wood

Advice from a Holy Man / Ulfat Abdurasulov

Shāh-i Aḥmad al-Ṣabāwī and His Descendants / Allen J. Frank

Shaykhs of the Sacred Mountain / Sergey Abashin

The Struggle for Sharīʿa / Pavel Shabley

Continuities and Complexities of the Islamic Discourse in Daghestan from the 1920s to the 1980s / Shamil Shikhaliev

Tell the Mufti / Paolo Sartori, Bakhtiyar Babajanov

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Sela, Ron Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia

ISBN:

9789004527096

9004527095

OCLC:

1351747317

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004527096 DOI