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Studying Islam in the Soviet Union

Michael Kemper

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Description:Our image of Islam in the Soviet Union has changed a lot in the last three decades. During the Cold War period, Western observers were mainly driven by the question whether Islam - and above all the Sufi brotherhoods with their male disciples - could become a political and military threat to Moscow's rule in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Russian scholars, by contrast, regarded Sufi sm as a threat because the Sufi shrines attracted a mainly female audience; these women would transmit the 'superstitions' of Islam to their children and contribute to the dominance of Muslim traditionalism - a kind of Soviet subculture that seemed to be resistant against atheist education. As shown in the lecture, Western and Soviet researchers made the same methodological mistakes; and today we often repeat these mistakes when stereotyping Islamic 'fundamentalism'. Contents:The Western Sovietologist Discourse on Islam --Soviet Discourses on Islam: Antireligious, Religious, andAcademic --Inverted Roles: The Heritage of the Soviet Policy on Islam --Conclusion: Soviet Orientalism --We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Studying Islam in the Soviet Union. To get started finding Studying Islam in the Soviet Union, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 26

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Vossiuspers UvA

Release: 2009

ISBN: 9056295659

Description: Our image of Islam in the Soviet Union has changed a lot in the last three decades. During the Cold War period, Western observers were mainly driven by the question whether Islam - and above all the Sufi brotherhoods with their male disciples - could become a political and military threat to Moscow's rule in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Russian scholars, by contrast, regarded Sufi sm as a threat because the Sufi shrines attracted a mainly female audience; these women would transmit the 'superstitions' of Islam to their children and contribute to the dominance of Muslim traditionalism - a kind of Soviet subculture that seemed to be resistant against atheist education. As shown in the lecture, Western and Soviet researchers made the same methodological mistakes; and today we often repeat these mistakes when stereotyping Islamic 'fundamentalism'. Contents:The Western Sovietologist Discourse on Islam --Soviet Discourses on Islam: Antireligious, Religious, andAcademic --Inverted Roles: The Heritage of the Soviet Policy on Islam --Conclusion: Soviet Orientalism --We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Studying Islam in the Soviet Union. To get started finding Studying Islam in the Soviet Union, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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