The dialectics of post-Soviet modernity and the changing contours of Islamic discourse in Azerbaijan : : toward a resacralization of public space / / Murad Ismayilov.

This study examines the relationship between the Azerbaijani state and its society in the post-Soviet period. The author analyzes the growing cooperation between secular and religious sectors, the normalization of Islamic discourse, and elite attitudes toward Islam.

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Place / Publishing House:Lanham : : Lexington Books,, [2018]
2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Central Asia: societies, politics, and cultures
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Physical Description:1 online resource (195 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Hybrid intentionality and exogenous sources of the elite's manifold attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan : geography, Soviet legacy, and the quest for Western recognition
  • The complicity of the domestic populace, secular opposition, civil society, and the international community in reproducing the religious secular divide and the representation of Islam as a threat
  • The contextual dialectics of elite attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan
  • The dynamics of change : the bridging of the religious-secular divide and the normalization of Islamic discourse across Azerbaijan's social-political landscape
  • Normalization of Islamic discourse and the future of Islam in Azerbaijan : quo vadis?
  • A shared landscape of Islamism across the secularized Middle East.