Muslim Communities Reemerge

by Kappeler, Andreas; Simon, Gerhard; Brunner, George; Allworth, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780822314905
• ISBN10: 0822314908
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

The terrible events afflicting Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan fill the news, commanding the world's attention. This timely volume offers rare insight into the background of these catastrophic conflicts. First published in German on the eve of the breakup of the Yugoslav and Soviet republics, it is one of the few books in any language to analyze, in detail and in depth, the historical and contemporary situation of Muslims in former communist states and thus clarifies the sources, development, and implications of the events that dominate today's foreign news. In fourteen chapters and an updated introduction, European and North American specialists examine the recent evolution of Islamic expression and practice in these former Communist regions, as well as its political significance within officially atheistic regimes. Representing a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, the authors detail how the modern ethno-religious situation developed and matured in hostile circumstances, the degree of latitude the local Muslims achieved in religious expression, and what prospect the future seemed to offer just before the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Overall, the book provides a thorough analysis of the coincidence and tension between ethnic and religious identity in two countries officially devoted to the separation of ethnic groups in domestic cultural arrangements but not in the social or political realm.Contributors. Edward Allworth, Hans Brauml;ker, Marie Broxup, Georg Brunner, Bert G. Fragner, Uwe Halbach, Wolfgang Houml;pken, Andreas Kappeler, Edward J. Lazzerini, Richard Lorenz, Alexandre Popoviacute;c, Sabrina Petra Ramet, Azade-Ayse Rorlich, Gerhard Simon, Tadeusz Swietochowski

Table of Contents

Central Asia Book Series	vii
Preface to the English-Language Edition	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Gerhard Simon
Part I Nation Building
The Nationalization of the Uzbeks and Tajiks	13	(20)
Bert G. Fragner
Defining the Orient: A Nineteenth-Century Russo-Tatar Polemic over Identity and Cultural Representation	33	(13)
Edward J. Lazzerini
Islam and the Growth of National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan	46	(15)
Tadeusz Swietochowski
One or More Tatar Nations?	61	(19)
Azade-Ayse Rorlich
Religious and National Signals in Secular Central Asian Drama	80	(31)
Edward Allworth
Primordial Ethnicity or Modern Nationalism: The Case of Yugoslavia's Muslims, Reconsidered	111	(30)
Sabrina Petra Ramet
Part II Policies toward Muslims
Czarist Policy toward the Muslims of the Russian Empire	141	(16)
Andreas Kappeler
Soviet Policy toward Islam	157	(26)
Hans Braker
The Status of Muslims in the Federative Systems of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia	183	(31)
Georg Brunner
Yugoslavia's Communists and the Bosnian Muslims	214	(37)
Wolfgang Hopken
Part III Muslim Opposition
``Holy War'' against Czarism: The Links between Sufism and Jihad in the Nineteenth-Century Anticolonial Resistance against Russia	251	(26)
Uwe Halbach
Economic Bases of the Basmachi Movement in the Farghana Valley	277	(27)
Richard Lorenz
Political Trends in Soviet Islam after the Afghanistan War	304	(18)
Marie Broxup
Islamic Movements in Yugoslavia	322	(19)
Alexandre Popovic
Appendix: Statistical Tables and Figures	341	(12)
Notes on the Contributors and Editors	353	(4)
Index	357