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- Title
Religious-Cultural Revivalism as Historiographical Debate: Contending Claims in the Post-Soviet Kazakh Context*.
- Authors
Weller, R. Charles
- Abstract
Amidst the continuing atmosphere of post-Soviet revivalism, historiographical debates over Central Asian as well as broader world religious-cultural history and identity continue to be voiced among Kazakh scholars. In examining these debates through his own careful translations of key Kazakh-language sources, the author highlights the internal struggle between resurgent Muslim and Tengrist (i.e. ‘Native Turkic Religious’) positions developing in dynamic interface with lingering atheistic-Communist and rising Western-secular as well as Christian influence among the Turkic Central Asian peoples. These debates carry implications for not only Turkic Central Asian history and identity, but for interreligious, intercultural and international relations and dialogue between the Western and Central Asian as well as broader Western–Asian, Western–Islamic and Christian–Muslim worlds. They affirm the central importance of historical knowledge and historiographical (re)interpretation particularly within post-colonial and other revivalist settings and, likewise, help normalize our perceptions of Islam as a participant in such exchanges within the Kazakh as well as broader Central Asian and world communities.
- Subjects
KAZAKHSTAN; ISLAM &; culture; CULTURAL identity; HISTORIOGRAPHY; ISLAM &; other religions; REVIVALS (Religion); RELIGION; HISTORY of Kazakhstan, 1991-; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
0955-2340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jis/ett058