• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Politicizing Islam in Central Asia : from the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads
  • Contributor: Collins, Kathleen [Author]
  • Published: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2023]
  • Published in: Oxford scholarship online ; Political Science
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197685068.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780197685105
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  • RVK notation: MH 12086 : Politischer Wandel (Tradition, Fortschritt, Reform, Konflikt, Krise, Revolution)
  • Keywords: Mittelasien > Islam > Opposition > Fundamentalismus > Geschichte 1917-
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: In 'Politicizing Islam', Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements - first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization across numerous post-Soviet Central Asian countries, she covers over a century and explains the strategies and relative success of each movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam and ideology motivated and enabled Islamist mobilization.