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Subject(s)

• Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917-1921—Influence [Browse]
• Islam and politics—Russia (Federation)—Dagestan [Browse]
• Muslims—Political activity—Russia (Federation)—Dagestan [Browse]
• Education—Russia (Federation)—Dagestan—History—20th century [Browse]
• Dagestan (Russia)—Politics and government—20th century [Browse]
• Dagestan (Russia)—Intellectual life—20th century [Browse]
• Dagestan (Russia)—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores how the Muslim scholars of Daghestan, an important Muslim region within Russia, experienced the 1917 Russian Revolution and how they attempted to gain religious and political authority in the new post-imperial environment. Covering the period between the February Revolution and the first massive repressions of the scholars of Islam, it provides new insights into the complexities of the relations between Muslim reformers and Bolsheviks. It challenges the prevailing view in Western scholarship that the relationship was antagonistic, revealing that relations were pragmatic rather than ideological. It argues that there was cooperation on issues of modern education and language policy, and alliances against assumed common threats, such as the British, Wahhābis and local Ṣūfīs, along with disagreements related to the Bolsheviks' atheism and their concept of class struggle. Overall, it demonstrates that the Islamic reformist discourse in Daghestan, although influenced by the wider Islamic debate at the turn of the twentieth century, was an integral part of Soviet modernity"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• Notes on translation and transliteration
• Introduction
• Histori(ographi)cal background: the Russian Revolution and early Soviet rule in Daghestan (1917-1929)
• The concept of "freedom" and the issue of the Imamate in the revolutionary discourse of the Daghestani reformists
• The visions of Daghestan's future in debates on education and on the language of instruction
• The new scopes of the Islamic discourse: inner-Islamic and Soviet trajectories of the 1920s in the journal Bayān al-Ḥaqā'iq
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781032216201 (hardcover)
• 1032216204 (hardcover)
• 9781032216218 (paperback)
• 1032216212 (paperback)

LCCN

2021051962

OCLC

1280274765

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