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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454888303321

Titolo

Islamic education in the Soviet Union and its successor states / / edited by Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika, and Stefan Reichmuth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-134-20731-X

1-282-25692-0

9786612256929

0-203-02792-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Central Asian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

KemperMichael

MotikaRaoul

ReichmuthStefan

Disciplina

371.0770947

Soggetti

Islamic education - Soviet Union

Islamic education - Former Soviet republics

Islamic education - Asia, Central

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Islamic education in Soviet and post-Soviet Tatarstan; 2 Islamic education in Ukraine; 3 Islamic education in Soviet and post-Soviet Daghestan; 4 Islam and Islamic education in Soviet and independent Azerbaijan; 5 Islamic education in Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan; 6 Islamic education in Soviet and post-Soviet Kazakhstan; 7 Muslims without learning, clergy without faith: Institutions of Islamic learning in the Republic of Tajikistan; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comparative history of Islamic education in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet countries. Case studies on Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and on two regions of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan and Daghestan, highlight the importance which Muslim communities in all parts of the Soviet Union attached to their formal and informal institutions of Islamic instruction.



New light is shed on the continuity of pre-revolutionary educational traditions - including Jadidist ethics and teaching methods - throughout the New Economic Policy period (1921-