Islamic leadership in the European lands of the former Ottoman and Russian Empires : : legacy, challenges and change / / edited by Egdūnas Račius Antonina Zhelyazkova.

• TeilnehmendeR: Račius, Egdūnas.; Zheli͡azkova, Antonina.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Muslim Minorities 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

In Islamic Leadership in the European Lands of the Former Ottoman and Russian Empires the history and contemporary development of Islamic leadership in over a dozen of Eastern European countries is analysed. The studies are presented through a double prism: the institutional structures of the Muslim communities and the place of the muftiates in the current national constellations on one hand, and the dimension of the spiritual guidance emanating from the muftiates on the other. The latter includes aspects such as the muftiates’ powers and role in supervision of mosques and other religious institutions, production, dissemination and control of religious knowledge and discussions on traditional and non-traditional forms of Islam engaged in by the muftiates. This is the first comprehensive edited volume on the subject. Contributors are: Srđan Barišić, Ayder Bulatov, Marko Hadjdinjak, Olsi Jazexhi, Memli Sh. Krasniqi, Armend Mehmeti, Dino Mujadžević, Agata S. Nalborczyk, Egdūnas Račius, Aziz Nazmi Shakir, Vitalii Shchepanskyi, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Daša Slabčanka, Aid Smajić, Irina Vainovski-Mihai, Mykhaylo Yakubovych, and Galina Yemelianova.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rationale of the Book / Antonina Zhelyazkova and Egdūnas Račius -- Historical Retrospective on Muftiship: Muftis, State Muftis and Official Muftis / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen -- Part 1 -- Ottoman and Yugoslav Legacy / Dino Mujadžević -- Albania / Olsi Jazexhi -- Bosnia and Hercegovina / Aid Smajić -- Bulgaria / Aziz Shakir -- Croatia / Dino Mujadžević -- Kosovo / Armend Mehmeti and Memli Sh. Krasniqi -- Romania / Irina Vainovski-Mihai -- Serbia / Srđan Barišić -- Slovenia / Marko Hajdinjak -- Part 2 -- Islamic Leadership: The Russian and Soviet Legacy / Galina M. Yemelianova -- Belarus / Daša Slabčanka -- Lithuania / Egdūnas Račius -- Poland / Agata S. Nalborczyk -- Ukraine / Mykhaylo Yakubovych , Vitalii Shchepanskyi and Ayder Bulatov -- Epilogue: Drawing Parallels / Egdūnas Račius and Antonina Zhelyazkova.