Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: from the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian jihads
Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam. Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. I...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mittelasien
/ Islam
/ Opposition
/ Fundamentalism
/ Geschichte 1917-
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBM Asia TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Muslims (Asia, Central)
Politics and government
B Asia, Central Politics and government B Islam and politics (Asia, Central) B Islam (Asia, Central) History |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Collins, Kathleen: Politicizing Islam in Central Asia. - United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2023. - 9780197685082 |
| Summary: | Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam. Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In Politicizing Islam in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements-first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization, she explains the strategies and relative success of each Central Asian Islamist movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam, by Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, together with the diffusion of religious ideologies, motivated Islamist mobilization. Sweeping in scope, this book traces the dynamics of Central Asian Islamist movements from the Soviet era through the Tajik civil war, the Afghan jihad against the US, and the foreign fighter movement joining the Syrian jihad. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben, Glossar, Register |
| ISBN: | 0197685072 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197685068.001.0001 |