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1 online resource (195 pages). |
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| Series |
Contemporary Central Asia: societies, politics, and cultures
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hybrid intentionality and exogenous sources of the elite's manifold attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan : geography, Soviet legacy, and the quest for Western recognition -- The complicity of the domestic populace, secular opposition, civil society, and the international community in reproducing the religious secular divide and the representation of Islam as a threat -- The contextual dialectics of elite attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan -- The dynamics of change : the bridging of the religious-secular divide and the normalization of Islamic discourse across Azerbaijan's social-political landscape -- Normalization of Islamic discourse and the future of Islam in Azerbaijan : quo vadis? -- A shared landscape of Islamism across the secularized Middle East. |
| Summary |
This study examines the relationship between the Azerbaijani state and its society in the post-Soviet period. The author analyzes the growing cooperation between secular and religious sectors, the normalization of Islamic discourse, and elite attitudes toward Islam. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Islam and state -- Azerbaijan.
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Islam -- Azerbaijan.
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Azerbaijan -- Attitudes.
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Islam -- Azerbaijan -- Public opinion.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ismayilov, Murad. Dialectics of post-Soviet modernity and the changing contours of Islamic discourse in Azerbaijan : toward a resacralization of public space. Lanham : Lexington Books, c2018 195 pages Contemporary Central Asia: societies, politics, and cultures 9781498568364 (DLC) 2017056994 |
| ISBN |
9781498568364 |
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9781498568371 (e-book) |
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