Russia S Muslim Frontiers

Author : Dale F. Eickelman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253208238

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Russia's Muslim Frontiers by Dale F. Eickelman Pdf

"Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: the differing approaches of the U.S. and the [former] Soviet Union to Middle East policy, Central Asia, and South Asia . . . provide grounds for self-criticism and the exploration of new directions." —John L. Esposito ". . . recommended highly for its expert analyses of political Islam." —Journal of Third World Studies Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars appraise recent political and religious developments among Russia's Muslim neighbors.

Author : Dale F. Eickelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0756753570

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Russias Muslim Frontiers by Dale F. Eickelman Pdf

"Readers will find fresh and thought-provoking studies: the differing approaches of the U.S. and the [former] Soviet Union to Middle East policy, Central Asia, and South Asia... provide grounds for self-criticism and the exploration of new directions." -- John L. Esposito ..". recommended highly for its expert analyses of political Islam." -- Journal of Third World Studies Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars appraise recent political and religious developments among Russia's Muslim neighbors.

Author : Firouzeh Mostashari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786732583

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On the Religious Frontier by Firouzeh Mostashari Pdf

Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations. With this in mind, On The Religious Frontier examines the history of Muslim Azerbaijan under Christian Orthodox Russian imperial rule and the attempts of the Russian administrators of the Caucasus to integrate the region into the empire. Drawing on original archival research from across Azerbaijan and Russia, Firouzeh Mostashari considers the formation of a Russian colonial administration in the Muslim Caucasus; subsequent social, political and economic developments; and the local responses to conquest, military rule and Russification. From 1804 to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, On The Religious Frontier offers a fascinating and timely insight into both the period itself and the ways in which the seeds of recent conflict were sown in tsarist Russia. This is important reading for all scholars of the history and politics of the Caucasus, as well as those with an interest in imperial Russia and its relationship with minority groups.

Author : Robert D. Crews
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674262850

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For Prophet and Tsar by Robert D. Crews Pdf

Russia occupies a unique position in the Muslim world. Unlike any other non-Islamic state, it has ruled Muslim populations for over five hundred years. Though Russia today is plagued by its unrelenting war in Chechnya, Russia’s approach toward Islam once yielded stability. In stark contrast to the popular “clash of civilizations” theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Robert D. Crews reveals the remarkable ways in which Russia constructed an empire with broad Muslim support. In the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great inaugurated a policy of religious toleration that made Islam an essential pillar of Orthodox Russia. For ensuing generations, tsars and their police forces supported official Muslim authorities willing to submit to imperial directions in exchange for defense against brands of Islam they deemed heretical and destabilizing. As a result, Russian officials assumed the powerful but often awkward role of arbitrator in disputes between Muslims. And just as the state became a presence in the local mosque, Muslims became inextricably integrated into the empire and shaped tsarist will in Muslim communities stretching from the Volga River to Central Asia. For Prophet and Tsar draws on police and court records, and Muslim petitions, denunciations, and clerical writings—not accessible prior to 1991—to unearth the fascinating relationship between an empire and its subjects. As America and Western Europe debate how best to secure the allegiances of their Muslim populations, Crews offers a unique and critical historical vantage point.

Author : Shireen Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315290119

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Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security by Shireen Hunter Pdf

This richly detailed study traces the shared history of Russia and Islam in expanding compass - from the Tatar civilization within the Russian heartland, to the conquered territories of the Caucasus and Central Asia, to the larger geopolitical and security context of contemporary Russia on the civilizational divide. The study's distinctive analytical drive stresses political and geopolitical relationships over time and into the very complicated present. Rich with insight, the book is also an incomparable source of factual information about Russia's Muslim populations, religious institutions, political organizations, and ideological movements.

Author : Dominic Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787380882

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Russia's Muslim Heartlands by Dominic Rubin Pdf

Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren, living in the lands between Bukhara, Kazan and the Caucasus, once again have access to their historical traditions. But they also suffer the effects of civil war, mass migration and political instability. At the highest levels, Islam has been swept up into Russia's broader search for identity, as the old question of eastern versus western takes on new force. Dominic Rubin has spent the last three years interviewing Muslims across Russia, from Sufi shaykhs in Dagestan, new Muslim artists on the Volga and professionals in Kyrgyzstan to guest-workers commuting between Russia and Uzbekistan and Kremlin-sponsored muftis hammering out a new Russian Muslim ideology in Moscow. He discovers their family histories, their faith journeys and their hopes and fears, caught between roles as traditionalist allies in the new Eurasian Russia and as potential traitors in Moscow's war on terror. This story of Islam adapting in a paradoxical landscape, against all odds, brings alive the human reality behind the headlines.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Islam and state
ISBN : 0817920870

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Russia and Its Islamic World by Robert Service Pdf

Author : Mustafa Tuna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032491

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Imperial Russia's Muslims by Mustafa Tuna Pdf

Investigates the entangled transformations of Russia's Muslim communities from the late eighteenth century through to the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkish sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the transformation of Imperial Russia's oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims.

Author : Mario Apostolov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134413959

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The Christian-Muslim Frontier by Mario Apostolov Pdf

An examination of the civilisational interface between Christianity and Islam from the unique perspective as a zone of contact rather than a distinct boundary.

Author : David Brophy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674660373

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Uyghur Nation by David Brophy Pdf

Along the Russian-Qing frontier in the nineteenth century, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and revolution. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the Uyghur nation.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817920869

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Russia and Its Islamic World by Robert Service Pdf

Russia has long played an influential part in its world of Islam, and not all the dimensions are as widely understood as they ought to be. In Russia and Its Islamic World, Robert Service examines Russia's interactions with Islam at home and around the globe and pinpoints the tsarist and Soviet legacy, current complications, and future possibilities. The author details how the Russian encounter with Islam was close and problematic long before the twenty-first century and how Russia has recently chosen to interfere in Muslim states of the Middle East, building alliances and making enemies. Service reveals how some features of the present-day relationship continue past policies; others are starkly and perilously different, making the current moment in global affairs dangerous for both Russians and the rest of us. He describes how the Kremlin dominates Muslims in the Russian Federation, exerts a deep influence on the Muslim-inhabited states on Russia's southern frontiers, and has lunged militarily and politically into the Middle East. Foreign Muslims, he shows, do not value the leadership in Moscow except as a means to an end; Putin's pose as a friend of the Islamic world is no more than a pose—and a hypocritical one at that.

Author : Simona E. Merati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319535203

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Muslims in Putin's Russia by Simona E. Merati Pdf

This book offers a novel interpretation of Russian contemporary discourse on Islam and its influence on Russian state policies. It shifts the analytical perspective from the discussion about Russia's Islam as a potential security threat to a more comprehensive view of the relationships of Muslims with Russia as a state and a civilization. The work demonstrates how many Muslims increasingly express a sense of belonging to Russia and are increasingly willing to contribute to state building processes.

Author : Dmitri V. Trenin,Alexey Malashenko
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870032943

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Russia's Restless Frontier by Dmitri V. Trenin,Alexey Malashenko Pdf

The conflict in Chechnya, going through its low- and high-intensity phases, has been doggedly accompanying Russia's development. In the last decade, the Chechen war was widely covered, both in Russia and in the West. While most books look at the causes of the war, explain its zigzag course, and condemn the brutalities and crimes associated with it, this book is different. Its focus lies beyond the Caucasus battlefield. In Russia's Restless Frontier, Dmitri Trenin and Aleksei Malashenko examine the implications of the war with Chechnya for Russia's post-Soviet evolution. Considering Chechnya's impact on Russia's military, domestic politics, foreign policy, and ethnic relations, the authors contend that the Chechen factor must be addressed before Russia can continue its development.

Author : Gordon M. Hahn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 030012077X

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Russia's Islamic Threat by Gordon M. Hahn Pdf

Why contemporary Russia is a dangerous seedbed for radicalized Islam and what we should be doing about it The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge to Russia's political stability and state integrity. So concludes Gordon M. Hahn in this meticulously researched analysis of Russia's emerging Islamic threat. Hahn draws an explicit picture of an already sophisticated and effective Chechen jihadist network that is expanding the territorial scope of its operations with inspiration and some assistance from the global jihadist movement. Given its proximity to large stockpiles of diverse weapons, the expanding population of Russian-based Islamist terrorists is particular cause for alarm, the author warns. The book lifts the veil on the Muslim challenge to Russia's political stability, national security, and state integrity as well as the potentially grave threat to international and U.S. security. Hahn shows that many of the demographic, historical, socioeconomic, political, and religious factors sparking jihadi revolution in Muslim countries are extant in Russia and are driving revolutionary Islamist terrorism there. In a penetrating conclusion to the book, the author analyzes the policies that have fueled the rise of militant Islam and offers a series of important recommendations for policymakers.

Author : Stephane A. Dudolgnon,Komatsu Hisao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136888854

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Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia by Stephane A. Dudolgnon,Komatsu Hisao Pdf

First Published in 2001. This volume contains the proceedings of the international colloquium held by the IAS Project in October 1999. These papers deal with the modem and contemporary history of Central Eurasia, for a comprehensive reflection on various phenomena that led to a political valuation of Islam under non-Muslim domination, whether Russian or Chinese, since the beginning of the 18th century. A comparative approach to the current situations in the Russian Federation and the newly independent states of Central Asia has allowed us to study the various modes of the political instrumentalization of Islam, by both political power and opposition, in such various areas as the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan and the Volga-Urals region of Russia.