Allah's Kolkhozes : migration, de-Stalinisation, privatisation, and the new Muslim congregations in the Soviet realm (1950s-2000s) / Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Christian Noack (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dudoignon, Stéphane A., 1962- editor.

Noack, Christian, editor.

Series:

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; Band 314.

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; Band 314

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Asia, Central--History.

Muslims.

Asia, Central--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.

Asia, Central.

Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Asia, Central.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (541 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The larger part of the Muslim population in the Soviet realm lived and continues to live in rural areas. Other than in many parts of the present-day world of Islam, alternative, self-segregated, often anti-establishment Muslim congregations emerged outside the big urban agglomerations of the former USSR. Among other factors of this emergence can be mentioned: the mass resettlements operated from the 1940s to the 1970s towards cash-crop growing lowlands; the tight limitation on the drift from the land by the Soviet authorities; the relative autonomy enjoyed by rural production units endowed with specialised economic profiles; and the liberalisation of religious practice in the wake of de-Stalinisation. Eleven case studies trace the transformations of Soviet and post-Soviet Islam within the former collectivised villages in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Inner Russia. The authors provide rich evidence for the close interplay between Soviet kolkhoz administrations and the religious personnel of Islam on the local lore. They show how this connection prepared the ground for the emergence of alternative Muslim congregations in already the post-Stalinist Soviet Union — long before the phenomenon became broadly visible during the boom of public religious practice in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction

‘They Were All from the Country’. The Revival and Politicisation of Islam in the Lower Wakhsh River Valley of the Tajik SSR (1947–1997)

Maxim Gorki and Islamic Revolution in a Southern Tajik Cotton Plain

From Old to New Macha: Mass Resettlement and the Redefinition of Islamic Practice between Tajikistan’s Upper Valleys and Cotton Lowlands

The Economic and Religious History of a Kolkhoz Village: Khojawot from Soviet Modernisation to the Aftermath of the Islamic Revival

The ‘Enlighteners’ of Koni-Zar: Islamic Reform in a Cotton Kolkhoz

From Revived Tradition to Innovation: Kolkhoz Islam in the Southern Kazakhstan Region and Religious Leadership: The Cases of Zhartï Töbe and Oranghay since the 1950s

Withering Heights: The Re-Islamisation of a Kolkhoz Village in Dagestan: A Micro-History

Downward Mobility and Spiritual Life: The Development of Sufism in the Context of Migrations in Dagestan, 1940s–2000s

Sunflower and Moon Crescent: Soviet and Post-Soviet Islamic Revival in a Tatar Village of Mordova

Traditionalism, Modernism and Globalisation among the Volga Muslims: The Case of Sredniaia Eliuzan’

Urban, Rural or Something in Between: The Development of ‘Alternative’ Forms of Islam in Azerbaijan through the Case of Nardaran Village in Absheron

List of Maps

List of Contributors

Indexes

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112208984

3112208986

OCLC:

1196253623