Muslim Reformers and the Bolsheviks: The Case of Daghestan

ISBN-13: 9781032216201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str.

Naira Sahakyan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Histori(ographi)cal Background: The Russian Revolution and Early Soviet Rule in Daghestan (1917-1929) 2. The Concept of "Freedom" and the Issue of the Imamate in the Revolutionary Discourse of the Daghestani Reformists 3. The Visions of Daghestan’s Future in Debates on Education and on the Language of Instruction 4. The New Scopes of the Islamic Discourse: Inner-Islamic and Soviet Trajectories of the 1920s in the Journal Bayān al-Ḥaqā’iq Conclusion

O autorze

Naira E. Sahakyan is a Senior Researcher at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Armenia