Full Description
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.
Contents
Part One: Community Building in the Russian Dar al-Harb State Policy and its Impact on the Formation of a Muslim Identity in the Volga-Urals; The Tatar Ratusha of Kazan: National Self-Administration in Autocratic Russia, 1781-1855; Status, Strategies and Discourses of a Muslim Clergy under a Christian Law: Polemics about the Collection of the Zakdt in Late Imperial Russia Part Two: Towards a Restoration of the Dar aI-Islam State Building in Twentieth Century Muslim Central Asia. Two Attempts at Building a Qazaq State: The Revolt of 1916 and the Alash Movement; When Faizulla Khojaev Decided to Be an Uzbek; The Sufi Networks in Southern Xinjiang During the Republican Regime (1911-1949): An Overview; The Eastern Turkistan Republic (1933-1934) in Historical Perspective; Part Three: The Role of the Religious (fulama) and the Literati (udaba) Bukhara and Istanbul: A Consideration about the Background of the Munazara; Islam and Politics in Twentieth Century Uzbek Literature; Muhammadjan Hindustani (1892-1989) and the Beginning of the Great Schism among the Muslims of Uzbekistan; The Islamic Clergy in Tajikistan since the End of the Soviet Period; Part Four: Contemporary Issues Islam and Political Mobilization, from Tajikistan to the Suburbs of Moscow. A Surmountable Summit? Islam in Contemporary Qyrghyzstan: Its Role and Significance for the Individuals, the Society, and the State; Official and Unofficial Islam in Contemporary Tatarstan: Islam's Position in Tatar Society and the Emergence of an Independent Islamic Theoretical Perspective; Islam and Politics in Russia in the 1990s; Islam in the Ferghana Valley: Challenges for New States
