Muslim Reformers and the Bolsheviks

Name: Muslim Reformers and the Bolsheviks
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book explores how the Muslim scholars of Daghestan, an important Muslim region within Russia, experienced the 1917 Russian Revolution and how they attempted to gain religious and political authority in the new post-imperial environment. Covering the period between the February Revolution and the first massive repressions of the scholars of Islam, it provides new insights into the complexities of the relations between Muslim reformers and Bolsheviks. It challenges the prevailing view in Western scholarship that the relationship was antagonistic, revealing that relations were pragmatic rather than ideological. It argues that there was cooperation on issues of modern education and language policy, and alliances against assumed common threats, such as the British, Wahh\u0101bis and local \u1E62\u016Bf\u012Bs, along with disagreements related to the Bolsheviks\u2019 atheism and their concept of class struggle. Overall, it demonstrates that the Islamic reformist discourse in Daghestan.