Islam and ethnicity in Central Asia The case of the Islamic renaissance party

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1998-11-01

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Köksal, Pınar

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One of the basic themes of Islamic fundamentalist belief has been the notion of umma, in which all believers form one big family and are brothers and sisters to each other. Other attachments, such as nationality, ethnicity, and regionalism, are less important and less relevant; Islam forms a common bond above those attachments and transcends them. This article will analyze the notion of the common bond of Islam within the specific context of the Central Asian regional branch of the all-Union Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP), formed in the former Soviet Union in 1990, and try to show that Islam failed to be the most important identity transcending all other attachments in the region. I will argue that national, ethnic and regional factors in Central Asia interfered with religious feelings and in many cases weakened the appeal of Islamic unity. This situation made the common bond of Islam - the basic theme of the IRP - irrelevant. The party had to face several challenges from its regional branches, which were concerned primarily with local interests rather than with being in a union with their Muslim brethren.

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Mediterranean Quarterly

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Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Article

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P. Köksal, “Islam and ethnicity in Central Asia The case of the Islamic renaissance party,” Mediterranean Quarterly, pp. 126–150, 1998, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/83889.