It was a Dark and Stagnant Night (‘til the Jadids Brought the Light): Clichés, Biases, and False Dichotomies in the Intellectual History of Central Asia

DeWeese, Devin

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“…6 Early Volga-Ural Islamic reformers of the 19th century, including Abū Naṣr Qūrṣāwī and Shihāb al-Dīn Marjānī, set the stage for the emergence of Jadidism, broadly understood to be a collection of social, intellectual and cultural reforms spanning Muslim societies in the Russian Empire. 7 I subscribe to the definition of Jadidism as the 19th and 20th century "revolution in the intellectual history of Muslims in the Russian Empire that prepared them for the social changes of the New Age." 8 Jadidism took many forms, with prominent centers in Central Asia and the Volga-Ural region.…”

Section: Historical and Ideological Backgroundmentioning

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Notes on Muḥammad ʿabduh’s Influence on the Volga-Ural Jadids

Vasishchev-Perl

2022

Вестник Башкирского Университета

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The aftermath of the 1905 Russian Revolution saw an explosion in publishing activity by the ethnic and religious minorities of the Russian Empire. The diverse range of publications from the Muslim community in the Volga-Ural region revealed a deep interconnectedness with the wider Muslim world, especially between the reform-oriented Jadids and Muslim Modernists from around the globe. The author of the article explores the complex influence of the Egyptian reformer Muḥammad ʿAbduh and his writings among the Jadidist circles in the Volga-Ural region. The study shows the profound effect of ʿAbduh's views on Islamic historiography and of his understanding of ijtihād and his reaction to European modernity on the ideology of the Volga-Ural Jadids.

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Section: Historical and Ideological Backgroundmentioning

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Notes on Muḥammad ʿabduh’s Influence on the Volga-Ural Jadids

Vasishchev-Perl

2022

Вестник Башкирского Университета

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“…The representation of Salafism as a foreign influence is also problematic if one considers that Jadid Tatar theologians embraced ideas of Islamic reform which can be viewed as close to Salafi interpretations of Islam (DeWeese, 2016). Certain parts of a pre-revolutionary Tatar theological legacy can also be claimed as local orthodoxy by the pious Muslims who form a halal movement, as analysed by Benussi (2017: 22).…”

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“… 4 See DeWeese (2016) on similarities between the views of Jadid reformers and Salafi interpretations of Islam.…”

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The paradoxes of a localised Islamic orthodoxy: Rethinking Tatar traditional Islam in Russia

Puppo

2019

Ethnicities

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The question of the process of developing national or local forms of Islam is often approached through the lens of the domestication of Islam and by emphasising the role of the state or Muslim officials close to the state in this process. In my analysis of the process, undertaken by certain Tatar Muslim representatives in Russia, of developing what I call a localised Islamic orthodoxy, I aim to study shifts in the debate on ‘traditional Islam’ towards a more theological understanding of the term. I examine attempts to develop a local interpretation of Islam that, while based on universal religious fundaments, is not in opposition to Tatar national traditions and a secular modern lifestyle. The representation of an ‘orthodox traditional Islam’ is necessarily paradoxical to the extent that a localised orthodoxy claims to be timeless, ‘natural’ and established but still needs to be defined, learned and taught following decades of Soviet atheist policies. Furthermore, this representation relies on the projection of orthodoxy onto the past in a process in which certain elements of a complex Tatar Muslim identity are made visible and emphasised (in particular, the Hanafi tradition), while others are obscured. By referring to the literature on orthodoxy in the anthropology and sociology of Islam and in Islamic studies, I aim to examine the theological dimension of the process of defining a local Islam that is currently being pursued by certain Tatar Muslim representatives in Russia.

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“…These two traditions have customarily been juxtaposed as representatives of liberalism and reformism (Jadidism) and conservatism (Qadidism). Several recent studies have criticised this simplistic representation and demonstrated that the image of progressive Jadidism was mostly created in Soviet times to construct a model of Islam that suited the values of the political establishment (Bustanov and Dorodnykh 2017;DeWeese 2016). However, these views remain deeprooted which is illustrated in the debates among Islamic scholars and secular academics.…”

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Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in Russia

Aitamurto

2019

Religion, State and Society

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Transnational Islam is increasingly presented in the Russian political rhetoric as a security threat. Therefore, Russian politicians and authorities attempt to support indigenous or national forms of Islam. Similar policies are implemented in several western European countries. Yet they tend to disregard the heterogeneity of the Muslim community, they create exclusions and they are often conceived as imposing outside evaluations and interpretations on Islam. This contribution analyses initiatives intended to develop a national Islam in post-Soviet Russia. While the aims, methods and problems in different countries are often quite similar, the values and norms underlying these initiatives vary and reflect the societies from which they emerge. This contribution argues that since the 1990s, the changes in the political line of the Kremlin have impacted the project for a 'national' Islam by placing less emphasis on liberal values and more emphasis on adherence to loyalism and political conservatism.

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It was a Dark and Stagnant Night (‘til the Jadids Brought the Light): Clichés, Biases, and False Dichotomies in the Intellectual History of Central Asia

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Notes on Muḥammad ʿabduh’s Influence on the Volga-Ural Jadids

Notes on Muḥammad ʿabduh’s Influence on the Volga-Ural Jadids

The paradoxes of a localised Islamic orthodoxy: Rethinking Tatar traditional Islam in Russia

Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in Russia

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