Islam and Muslims in Contemporary Ukraine: Common Backgrounds, Different Images
Islam in Ukraine has its roots in the Middle Ages and is mostly associated with the Crimean Tatars. Muslims were repressed in the Soviet period, when most of the Tatars were deported from their homeland to Central Asia. Ukrainian independence opened a new era in the development of Islam; the last tw...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2010
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Religion, state & society
Year: 2010, Volume: 38, Issue: 3, Pages: 291-304 |
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| Summary: | Islam in Ukraine has its roots in the Middle Ages and is mostly associated with the Crimean Tatars. Muslims were repressed in the Soviet period, when most of the Tatars were deported from their homeland to Central Asia. Ukrainian independence opened a new era in the development of Islam; the last two decades (1989-2009) were the formative period for Muslim religious institutions. On the basis of the most recent sources, I argue that the Ukrainian part of the Islamic umma has been influenced by various foreign religious organisations. Using all possible forms of Islamic activism, various groups (like Hizb ut-Tahrir ) have been formulating what they call an Islamic social and political position in relation to the main issues in Ukrainian society today. Their efforts have led to heated discussion among Ukrainian Muslim activists, scholars and politicians. We observe a politicisation of Islamic activism and an ideological clash between traditional institutions and newly founded Islamic communities. |
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| ISSN: | 1465-3974 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2010.499287 |