Islamic Leadership and the state in Eurasia / Galina M. Yemelianova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yemelianova, Galina M., 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic leadership--Eurasia.

Islamic leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia, encompassing Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, the Volga-Urals, Crimea, the North Caucasus, Azerbaijan and ex-Soviet Central Asia. Its analysis is positioned within the current secularism/de-secularisation debate. The book is based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including the author's interviews with Islamic official and popular leaders and authorities, which she conducted over two decades in various parts of Eurasia. The book employs a history-based perspective and compares the nature and role of official Islamic leadership and the state-Muslim relations across Eurasia with those in both the Middle East and Western Europe. It argues that in most of the post-Soviet lands, the official Islamic leadership and its relations with the state have largely retained their particular national and broader Eurasian character, which distinguishes them from what prevails in the Middle East and Western Europe. At the same time, the increasing political 'Europeanisation' of Lithuania and Ukraine since 2014 and, to some extent, Belarus, has accounted for their divergence towards the Western model of state-Muslim relations. In conclusion, it analyses the impact of globalisation and the advance of global Salafism, in particular, on Islamic leadership and state-Muslim relations across post-Soviet Eurasia.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Glossary

Note on Transliteration, Place Names and Calendars

Additional Signs Used

Introduction

Part I Islam, Islamic Authority And Leadership Before And During The Russian Rule

Chapter One Authority And Leadership In Islam: A Historical And Comparative Perspective

Muḥammad, Rāshidūn and Umayyads

Al-Andalus

The Abbasids and Their Challengers

Islamic Debate and Division during the Golden Age

Ṣūfīsm

Muftīs

The Ottomans

The Safawids

Conclusion

Chapter Two Islamic Leadership Among Tatars And Other Turkic Peoples Prior To And During Russian Rule

Islam and Islamic Authority among Turkic Peoples of Central Eurasia

Volga Bulgaria

The Golden Horde and Other Muslim Genghizid Khānates

The Golden Horde

Kazan Khānate

Astrakhan Khānate

Nogai Horde

Crimean Khānate

Qasimov Khānate

The Khānate of Sibir (Siberia)

Kazakh Khānate

Russian Policy on Islam and Islamic Leadership

Between the Sixteenth and the Late Eighteenth Centuries

Catherine the Great and the Making of 'Russian Islam'

Jadīdīsm

Chapter Three Islam And Islamic Leadership In The Caucasus

Geography, Stages and Forms of Islamization

The Caucasus within the Arab Caliphate

Stages of Islamization

Ṣūfīsm and Ṣūfī Authorities in the Caucasus

Social, Political and Legal Role of 'Adats

Islamic and Political Leadership during the Ghazawāt

Chapter Four ISLAM, ISLAMIC AUTHORITY AND LEADERSHIP IN CENTRAL ASIA

Arrival of Islam and the Specifics of Islamization

Central Asia within the Arab Caliphate

The Sāmānids

The Qarākhānids and Qarā Khitais

Ghaznavids

The Seljūqs.

The Role of Genghizids, Timūrids and Shaybānids

The Genghizids

The Timūrids

The Shaybānids

Naqshbandī Dynasties and Mazārs

The Khānate/Emīrate of Bukhara and the Khānates of Kokand and Khiva

Bukhara Khānate/Emīrate

The Khānate of Kokand

The Khānate of Khiva (Khwārazm)

Islam and Authority among Nomadic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Turkmen

Islam and Islamic Authority under Russian Rule

Muslim Kazakhs and the Russian Empire

Russian Turkestan

Khiva (Khwārazm) and Bukhara under the Russian Protectorate

Part II Islamic Authority And Leadership In The Ussr

Chapter Five The Volga-Urals

Tatar and Bashkir Leadership during the Revolutionary Period

The 1905-7 Russian Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution and the First World War

The 1917 Russian Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution and Its Implications

Between the Bolshevik Revolution and the Second World War

The Anti-Bolshevik Turco-Tatar Leadership

Muslim Communists

Muftīate

The Stalinist Assault on the Turco-Tatar National and Islamic Leadership

Muslim Leadership between 1941 and 1991

Islam and Muslim Leadership during the Second World War

The Tatar and Bashkir Muslim Leadership within Official Soviet Islam

Gorbachevian Perestroika and 'Young Imāms'

Chapter Six The North Caucasus

Islamic Leadership: Ethnocultural and Political Contexts

Muslim Leaders between the Russian Revolutions of 1905-7 and 1917

From the Bolshevik Revolution to the Great Patriotic War

Bolsheviks and the Islamic Leadership

Specifics of Sovietization

Deportations

Muslim Authorities and Leadership after the Great Patriotic War

The Muftīate of the North Caucasus

Unofficial Islamic Leaders

The 'Islamic Revival'

Chapter Seven The South Caucasus

Introduction.

Islamic and National Leadership in the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries

Incorporation within the Russian Empire

The Transcaucasian Muftīate

Islamo-national Leadership

Socialist-Democratic Leadership

Between the Russian Civil War and the Second World War

Islamic Leadership and Authority during and after the Second World War

Unofficial Muslim Authorities

Meskhetian Turks and Adjarians

The Impact of the Islamic Revolution in Iran

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict

Perestroika and the Islamic Leadership

Chapter Eight Central Asia And Kazakhstan

Islamo-national Leadership between the Russian Revolutions of 1905-7 and 1917

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Central Asian Elite

The Creation of the Central Asian Republics and Their Leadership

The Stalinist Assault on Islam and the Muslim Leadership

Muslim Leadership during and after the Great Patriotic War

The Sociocultural Implications of the War

Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan

Ismāʿīlī Muslims and Their Authorities

The 'Islamic Revival' and the New Islamic Leadership

Part III Islamic Authority And Leadership In Post-Soviet Lands

Chapter Nine Belarus, Ukraine And Lithuania

Historical Background

The Muslim Community and Its Leadership in Belarus

Islamic Organizations and Their Leaders in Ukraine

Ethnocultural and Political Specifics of Islam and Muslims

Ukraine's Muftīates

Al-Rāid, Fethullah Gülen's Movement and Other Islamic Organizations

Islam and Muslim Leadership in Lithuania

Muslims' Ethnocultural Composition and Legal Status

Muftīates of Lithuania

Chapter Ten European Russia

DUMES/TsDUM

DUM RF-SMR

DUM RT

Tatar Trans-regional Independent Muftīates

The Russian Association of Islamic Consensus

The Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia

Unofficial Islamic Leadership

Faizrakhmanists

Turkish Islamic Influences

Transnational Salafī Influences

The Arctic Muslim Leadership

Chapter Eleven The Caucasus

The North-Eastern Caucasus: Dagestan

Official Islamic Leadership

Salafī and Jihādīst Leadership

Chechnya and Ingushetia

Chechnya

Ingushetia

The North-Western Caucasus

Kabardino-Balkaria

Karachaevo-Cherkessia

Adygea

The South Caucasus: Azerbaijan

Chapter Twelve Central Asia

Uzbekistan

Tajikistan

Kazakhstan

Unofficial Islamic Leadership and Influences

Kyrgyzstan

Unofficial Islamic Authorities

Turkmenistan

Islam within the Official National Discourse

Muslim Leadership

Chapter Thirteen Eurasian Islamic Leadership Within The Global Context

Islamic and National Leadership in the Middle Eastern Context

From the Era of Rāshidūn to the Second World War

Arab Nationalism versus Islamism

Islamic Leadership in the European Context

From the Early History to the 1970s

The Making of 'European Islam' and Islamic Leadership

European Islamic Structures and Organizations

The Muslim Refugee Crisis.

Post-Soviet Islamic Leadership between Europe and Asia

Islamic Leadership in the Democratic Context

Islamic Leadership in the Authoritarian Context

Notes

Authority And Leadership In Islam: A Historical And Comparative Perspective

Islamic Leadership Among Tatars And Other Turkic Peoples Prior To And During Russian Rule

Islam And Islamic Leadership In The Caucasus

Islam, Islamic Authority And Leadership In Central Asia

The Volga-Urals

The North Caucasus

The South Caucasus

Central Asia And Kazakhstan

Belarus, Ukraine And Lithuania

European Russia

The Caucasus

Central Asia

Eurasian Islamic Leadership Within The Global Context

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781839980534

1839980532

9781839980527

1839980524

OCLC:

1294284281