Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia / / edited by Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori and Devin DeWeese

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910984640603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 9789004527096; 9004527095
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 pages)
• Collana: Brill's Inner Asian Library ; ; 43; Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
• Disciplina: 297.0958
• Soggetti: Islam - Asia, Central - History. ; Authority - Religious aspects - Islam
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori, Devin DeWeese -- The Soviet Union in Islamic Studies / Devin DeWeese -- The Return of Jinn and Angels / Agnès Kefeli -- The Authority of Saintly Narrative / Benjamin Gatling -- Mukhamedzhan Tazabek and Popular Islamic Authority in Kazakhstan / Wendell Schwab -- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Khalīfa and the Contest for Merv / William A. Wood -- Advice from a Holy Man / Ulfat Abdurasulov -- Shāh-i Aḥmad al-Ṣabāwī and His Descendants / Allen J. Frank -- Shaykhs of the Sacred Mountain / Sergey Abashin -- The Struggle for Sharīʿa / Pavel Shabley -- Continuities and Complexities of the Islamic Discourse in Daghestan from the 1920s to the 1980s / Shamil Shikhaliev -- Tell the Mufti / Paolo Sartori, Bakhtiyar Babajanov -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Thirty years after the fall of Soviet power, we are beginning to understand that the experience of Muslims in the USSR continued patterns of adaptation and negotiation known from Muslim history in the lands that became the Soviet Union, and in other regions as well; we can also now understand that the long history of Muslims situating religious authority locally, in the various regions that came under Soviet ; rule, in fact continued through the Soviet era into post-Soviet times. The present volume is intended to historicize the question of religious authority in Muslim Central Eurasia, through historical and anthropological case studies about the exercise, negotiation, or institutionalization of authority, from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century; it thus seeks to frame Islamic religious history in the areas shaped by Russian and Soviet rule in terms of issues relevant to Muslims themselves, as Muslims, rather than solely in terms of questions of colonial rule. Contributors are Sergei Abashin, Ulfat Abdurasulov, Bakhtiyar Babajanov, Devin DeWeese, Allen J. Frank, Benjamin Gatling, Agnès Kefeli, Paolo Sartori, Wendell Schwab, Pavel Shabley, Shamil Shikhaliev, and William A. Wood.