For Putin and for Sharia

Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Iwona Kaliszewska

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For Putin and for Sharia examines what it means to support sharia in twenty-first-century Dagestan, where calls for an Islamic state coexist with nostalgia for the days of Stalin's rule and Mecca calendars hang alongside portraits of Putin. Confronting existing narratives about sharia, terrorism, and anti-terrorism through ethnographic fieldwork, Iwona Kaliszewska looks at the beliefs and practices of Dagestani Muslims, revealing that the pursuit of sharia can assume a range of forms from sweeping visions of an Islamic state imposed through violence, to minor acts of everyday resistance against injustice, to attempts to restore the security and stability once afforded by the Soviet state. In For Putin and for Sharia, Kaliszewska challenges the official dichotomy of Muslims as supporting either the political underground or state authorities and deconstructs the Salafi/Sufi division between the so-called reformists and traditional Islam.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-15
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Antal sidor168
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9781501767630
ÖversättareBarys, Arthur

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For Putin and for Sharia is a fine ethnographic description of a part of the Caucasus that has received little attention from Western scholars. Throughout the book Kaliszewska takes the perspective of her interlocutors toward the state and its actions against citizens. This is not only brave, as she is confronted with violence and the state security apparatus for doing so, her approach also uncovers the controversial world of Salafi-oriented Muslims.(The Russian Review) Iwona Kaliszewska's book is a fine piece of scholarship and an engaging read.(Europe-Asia Studies) Kaliszewska's book is a fine piece of scholarship and an engaging read due to the author's vivid style.(Europe-Asia Studies)