TY  - GEN
A1  - Ersahin, Seyfettin
T1  - The official interpretation of Islam under the Soviet regime : a base for understanding of contemporary Central Asian Islam
T2  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur
N2  - Islam, the Muslim traditions and the ulama in Central Asian societies are becoming increasingly important for assessing the situation in and around the region. To understand of the post Soviet Muslim republics it is nec-essary to know the Islamic heritage of the Soviet Union, i.e. the Islamic understanding and interpretation of Soviet official ulama which still influence the mind of the people and the contemporary Central Asian ulama. The official ulama were endeavouring to reconcile Islam with science and progress and to guarantee its survival in a modern environment, they served by an extremely energetic effort to preserve Islam at least in purity and integrity as religion and national sentiment and to prevent it from relapsing into deprivation and ignorance. The most important official Muslim religious figure, the Mufti of Tashkent Z. Babakhan interpreted Islam as a bulwark of progress, disseminator of knowledge, the religion of peace and friendship; portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a “democrat, reformer and revolutionary, even a socialist”; reconciliation with socialism and communism.
T3  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 77 
KW  - Soviet Islam
KW  - Soviet Ulama
KW  - Central Asia
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/480
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-50153
UR  - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm
SN  - 1434-5935
IS  - 77
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -