Iwona Kaliszewska
For Putin and for Sharia: Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State
For Putin and for Sharia: Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State
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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, Iwona Kaliszewska's book explores 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. She 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.
Format: Hardback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2023
Publisher: Cornell University Press
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.
Through her nuanced and empathetic analysis, Kaliszewska sheds light on the complex and multifaceted ways in which Muslims in Dagestan navigate the competing demands of political loyalty, religious identity, and social change.
Weight: 454g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501767623
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