1st Edition
Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a comparative history of Islamic education in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet countries. Case studies on Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and on two regions of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan and Daghestan, highlight the importance which Muslim communities in all parts of the Soviet Union attached to their formal and informal institutions of... Read more
Introduction 1. Islamic Education in Soviet and Post-Soviet Tatarstan Dilyara Usmanova, Ilnur Minnullin and Rafik Mukhametshin 2. Islamic Education in Ukraine Alexander Bogomolov, Sergiy Danylov, Oleg Bubenok and Daniil Radivilov 3. Islamic Education in Soviet and Post-Soviet Daghestan Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Amir Navruzov and Shamil Shikhaliev 4. Islam and Islamic Education in Soviet and Independent Azerbaijan Altay Göyüsov and Elçin Äskärov 5. Islamic Education in Soviet and Post-Soviet Uzbekistan Ashirbek Muminov, Uygun Gafurov and Rinat Shigabdinov 6. Islamic Education in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kazakhstan Aitzhan Sh. Nurmanova and Asilbek K. Izbairov 7. Muslims without Learning, Clergy without Faith: Institutions of Islamic Learning in the Republic of Tajikistan Tim Epkenhans.
Biography
Michael Kemper is Professor of Eastern European Studies and Eastern European History at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Raoul Motika is Professor of Turcology at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Stefan Reichmuth is Professor of Oriental and Islamic Studies at the Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany.
"Specialists on Islam within the Muslim cultural spaces of the former Soviet Union, as well as students of Russian, Soviet, and comparative Islamic history, will welcome the appearance of this timely and empirically rigorous volume concerning the fate of traditional forms of organized Islamic education over the past century. This book constitutes the first comprehensive, comparative study of the topic across the Soviet space. It is also noteworthy for bringing together some of the region's most active researchers." -- Eren Tasar, Ab Imperio, 4/2011
