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Caucasus Survey Vol.1, No.2, April 2014, 3-23 1 Islam, nationalism and state in the Muslim Caucasus1 GALINA YEMELIANOVA Centre for Russian and East European Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham; email: g.yemelianova@bham.ac.uk Following the break-up of
Introduction Zikiriya Zhandarbek has a problem. That problem is Islam in contemporary Kazakhstan. In particular, he is worried about the threat that scripturalist Muslims pose to the existence of the Kazakh nation. He thinks that Kazakh imams ignore Kazakh traditions, that the major Islamic
-publicized threat of an Islamist takeover such as was imminent in neighboring Afghanistan, where Islamist opposition factions had engulfed the country in civil war, and seemed at one point likely to jeopardize Tajikistan. The Uzbek ssr ’s Communist Party First Secretary, Islam Karimov, became independent
depicted their chosen ideal projections of globally-oriented Muslim piety alongside contrasting visions of backward-looking Muslim exemplars. In 2009, Tajikistan’s Safina television network aired a film about the life of Abūḣanifa (d. 767 CE), the eponymous founder of the Ḣanafī school of Islamic
ritual prayer, belief that there is only one true interpretation of Islam, pedagogy focused on engagement with the Qur’an and hadiths, and modest dress such as headscarves for women. Recent survey data help to identify how large the piety movement is in Kazakhstan. Approximately four percent of the
article examines how images on the social media pages of Asyl Arna, Kazakhstan’s Islamic television network and dominant Islamic media company, create a way of understanding and engaging in contemporary Islamic life in Kazakhstan. The images on Asyl Arna’s social media promote Islam as an achievable part