Will Russia Become a Muslim Society?

With its rapidly growing population of Muslim citizens and migrant workers Russia is claiming its role in the Islamic world. This volume analyzes the complexity of Russian Islam, the conflicts between the conservative clerical institutions and the grass-roots radicals as well as the highly visible Islamization of daily life in some Muslim-inhabited regions. Russia's experience with «native» Islam, whose roots go back to the Middle Ages, holds lessons for dealing with an evolving European Islam which is no longer based on immigration but is becoming a domestic phenomenon.

Autorentext

Hans-Georg Heinrich is Professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna (Austria), and Vice-President of the International Center for Advanced and Comparative EU-Russia/NIS Research (ICEUR-Vienna). He has authored and edited several books on Post-Soviet politics and served in field presences of international organizations in various transition countries. Ludmilla Lobova is an ethnologist and political scientist with a focus on Post-Soviet research. She is Scientific Director of ICEUR-Vienna. Alexey Malashenko is an expert on Russian and Eurasian politics, Scholar-in-Residence at the Religion, Society and Security Program of the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO). He is author and editor of several books on Islam in the Russian Federation.

Inhalt

Contents: Alexey Malashenko: Islam in Russia: Religion and Politics E.F. Kisriev: Islamic Movements in the Northern Caucasus and Their Relations with the Authorities Ruslan Kurbanov: The Clerical Board of Russian Moslems. Contradictions and Developmental Dynamics Alexander Verkhovski: Muslims, Society and Authorities in Contemporary Russia Damir Ziniurevich Khaireddinov: Islamic Education in Russia. The History of its Establishment Ekaterina Khodzhaeva: Muslim Youth Identity: «Ethnic» versus «Practicing» Muslims Hans-Georg Heinrich/Ludmilla Lobova: Religious Identity in an Open Society: The Case of Chechen Refugees in Austria.