Muslim religious authority in Central Eurasia / edited by Ron Sela, Paolo Sartori, Devin DeWeese

• Superior document: Brill's Inner Asian library vol. 43
• HerausgeberIn: Sela, Ron; Sartori, Paolo 1975-; DeWeese, Devin 1956-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Inner Asian library vol. 43
• Physical Description: XII, 345 Seiten; 24 cm
• Notes: Includes index; Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06)

"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"--