{"title":"Inherited Islam","authors":"B. Balci","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917272.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917272.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Muslims from Central Asian and the Caucasus have played a central role in the development of a bright Islamic civilization, thanks to several thinkers like Al Buhari and Al Farabi. With the decline of this civilization and the domination of the region by Russian and Soviet rules, local Islam has been completely transformed. A Soviet—and unique—style of Islam has emerged among local societies. Glasnost and perestroika made an Islamic revival possible in the middle of the 1980s. The end of the Soviet Union represented a new turning point for this Islam: local Central Asian and Caucasian Muslims developed various connections and cooperation with diverse Islamic trends from Turkey, Iran, Arab countries and the Indian subcontinent. In sum, with the independence and the emergence of new Republics, Soviet Islam met global Islam and was transform by it.","PeriodicalId":328504,"journal":{"name":"Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129586773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Administration of Religion in the Newly Independent Republics","authors":"B. Balci","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917272.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917272.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Faced with an Islamic revival from the inside and incoming foreign Islamic trends, leaders in Central Asia and the Caucasus have developed specific policies for a better management of Islam. With a new attitude toward Islam, different from the Soviet approach to religion, the new leaders have developed their own “national” Islam, also called a traditional Islam, one that accepts the control of the State. Security and stability of the country are the first parameters determining management of Islam by the government. For that, Islamic education and the existence of appropriate committees are the main tools and instruments that help the regimes to control the transformation of Islam.","PeriodicalId":328504,"journal":{"name":"Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121906188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turkey as an Islamic Actor in Central Asia and the Caucasus","authors":"B. Balci","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917272.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917272.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Because of its kinship with Central Asian and Caucasian peoples, Turkey was among the first to recognize the new independent states and to develop various political, cultural and economic relations with them. One of the most important dimensions of Turkish interest in the former Soviet Union was Islam. Indeed, considering that religion is a way to bring these countries closer to Turkey, Ankara charged the Diyanet (Direction for the management of religious affairs) to develop Islamic links between Turkey and Central Asia and the Caucasus. For that purpose, the Diyanet formed new Islamic elites in Central Asia, and contributed to the rehabilitation and construction of new mosques, among other initiatives for the emergence of a moderate and modern Islam. In addition to this Turkish official and governmental Islamic activism, various non-governmental actors, brotherhoods and foundations have played the same role in the post-Soviet sphere, where they developed various Islamic activities.","PeriodicalId":328504,"journal":{"name":"Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122374307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South Asia’s Influence on the Revival of Islam in Central Asia","authors":"B. Balci","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190917272.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190917272.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Several centuries old, the relationships between contemporary Central Asia and South Asia—mainly the Indian subcontinent—have been consolidated through the Moghul dynasty, founded by Central Asian conquerors. After a long period of non-relations between the two regions, the collapse of the Soviet Union permitted new Islamic exchanges between Central Asia and India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This new Islamic link is mainly the work of a very influential and transnational organization, called Jama’at al Tabligh. Its members work for the diffusion of faith and piety in their country, promoting an Islam influenced by the Deoband school of India.","PeriodicalId":328504,"journal":{"name":"Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128218815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influences from the Arabian Peninsula on the Revival of Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus","authors":"B. Balci","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780190917272.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780190917272.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Arabian Peninsula and Arab countries have always been linked to Muslims of Central Asia and the Caucasus. However, because of the Russian and Soviet parenthesis, the Islamic connections between these regions weakened. With the end of the Soviet Union, an Islamic cooperation started and took mainly two channels: pilgrimages (hajj) and diaspora. Although it was de facto impossible during the Soviet period, hajj has become a very important Islamic point of contact between Saudi Arabia and the post-Soviet sphere, contributing to the development of Salafism in the region. Meanwhile, Uzbek and Uighurs, the two Central Asian diasporic communities present in Saudi Arabia for several decades, have also contributed to the development of Islamic cooperation between the Arabian Peninsula and the new post-Soviet Republics.","PeriodicalId":328504,"journal":{"name":"Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123277626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}