Islam in the Soviet Union: From the Second World War to Gorbachev

by Yaacov Ro'i

• ISBN13: 9780231119559
• ISBN10: 0231119550
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Author Biography

Yaacov Ro'i is professor of history and a research fellow at the Cummings Center for Russian and east European Studies, University of Tel Aviv.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	ix
Glossary	xv
Acronyms and Abbreviations	xxii
Maps	xxiv
Note on Methodology	1	(8)
Part I. THE SETTING
Soviet Religious Policy and its Implementation	9	(47)
The Dimensions of Islam	56	(44)
Part II. ESTABLISHMENT ISLAM
The Four Spiritual Directorates	100	(81)
Terms of reference and raison d'etre	102	(19)
Relations with the registered mosques and religious societies	121	(14)
The spiritual directorates and non-establishment Islam	135	(5)
The fetwa	140	(15)
The spiritual directorates as leaders of Soviet Islam	155	(26)
The Registered Mosques and Clergy	181	(106)
The process and problematics of registration, 1944--48	183	(16)
The first bout of closures	199	(4)
The period of `liberalisation'	203	(2)
Khrushchev's anti-religious campaign	205	(9)
`Normalisation'	214	(3)
Mosque attendance	217	(8)
Attributes and activities of registered religious associations	225	(14)
The clergy	239	(14)
The sermon	253	(9)
The attitude to non-establishment Islam	262	(8)
Economic activity	270	(9)
The mosque's lay leadership	279	(8)
Part III. UNOFFICIAL, `PARALLEL' ISLAM
Unregistered Activity	287	(98)
The unregistered religious associations	287	(37)
The clergy	324	(39)
Muslim holy places	363	(22)
The Sufi Orders and the Sects	385	(43)
Central Asian `ishanism'	393	(12)
The Northern Caucasus	405	(17)
The Ismailis	422	(3)
Peripheral groups and sects	425	(3)
Part IV. THE SOCIAL ASPECT: THE PRACTICE OF ISLAM
The Sociology of Soviet Islam	428	(40)
General features	428	(19)
Intensity of Muslim religiosity	447	(21)
Rites and Rituals: the Yearly Cycle	468	(41)
The fast of Ramadan	468	(21)
The festivals	489	(20)
Rites and Rituals: the Family and the Individual	509	(41)
Rites of passage	510	(25)
The role and status of the Muslim woman	535	(15)
Part V. ISLAM AND THE REGIME
Official Policy	550	(57)
The attitude to Islam and policy implementation in the Muslim sector	550	(13)
The ideological dimension	563	(9)
Questions of internal security	572	(12)
Considerations of foreign policy	584	(5)
Problems of policy implementation	589	(18)
The Local Organs of Government	607	(75)
Indifference to Islamic activity	621	(14)
Connivance with and partiality for Islam	635	(13)
Active participation in Muslim activity	648	(3)
Antagonism to Islam and its practice	651	(24)
Toeing the line	675	(7)
Islam and Nationalism	682	(31)
Islam as part of the national heritage	688	(12)
Islam as a source and inspiration of nationalist revival	700	(13)
Afterword	713	(18)
Bibliography	731	(10)
Index	741