The faceless terrorist : a study of critical events in Tajikistan /: a study of critical events in Tajikistan. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sophie Roche.
• Authors: Roche, Sophie
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements, or the Social History of a Book; Notes on Transliteration and Usage; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Defining Jihad, Mujahid, and Shahid; Conceptualizing Jihad; Muslim Scholarship on Jihad; The Formation of Jihadist Values; Jihad for and Against Rulers in Central Asia; Contemporary Islamic Movements in Central Asia; Introduction to Research on Terror, Terrorists, and Terrorism; Struggling for Definitions; Discourses on Terrorism; Terror States and State Terror; Identifying ``the West;́́ Summary of the Military Intervention, 2010-2011; Theoretical Reflections The Study of Experience and RelationalityCritical Events; Bibliography by Author; Bibliography Without Author; Chapter 2: Ethnographers, Functionaries, Mullahs, and the Making of ``Muslims;́́ The Politics of Categories; The Soviet Stateś Effort to Organize Muslim Authorities; An Ethnographic Laboratory; Bureaucratic Islam versus Political Islamic Parties; The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (Hizbi Nahzati Islomii Tojikiston); The Syrian Conflict; Negotiating Categories; Bibliography by Author; Bibliography Without Authors; Chapter 3: Biographical Narratives of Muslim Activists The Biographies of Three Muslim ActivistsShamsiddin Saidov; Izzat Aman; Sharifjon Mukarramov; Islamic Awakening in Tajikistan; Politicizing Islam: The Soviet-Afghan War; Stumbling Out of Sleep into a Civil War: The 1990s; Rethinking Political Islam Since the Mid-2000s; Conclusion; Bibliography by Author; Bibliography Without Author; Chapter 4: Islamizdat Literature on the Notions of Jihad, Shahid, Mujahid, and Death; The Revival of Islamic Concepts in Pamphlets; Religious Texts Since the 1980s in Tajikistan; Professional Texts Written By and About Religious Authorities Islamizing the EverydayLiterature on Key Events in and After Life; Literature on Women; Political Literature; Scholarly Literature; Islamizdat Texts on Death and Warfare; The Mujahidś Handbook; The Context of the Handbook; The Content of The Mujahidś Handbook; The Mujahidś Handbook in Sections; Jihad in The Mujahidś Handbook; Weapons and Jihad; Shahid in The Mujahidś Handbook; Conclusion; Bibliography by Author; Bibliography Without Author; Bibliography of the Pamphlets (Islamizdat); Titles Without Authors; Chapter 5: A Conflict Goes Online Section One: The Terrorist in the Discourse of DangerSection Two: The Invention of Wahhabists in Central Asia; Section Three: The Mujahids of the ``New Territory of Jihad;́́ The Website of the Kavkaz Center; Section Four: The ``Foreign Terrorists ́́of Rasht; Section Five: Cousins in Combat; Section Six: Political Activists in Tajikistan; Section Seven: The Mujohiddin of Tajikistan; Conclusion; Bibliography by Author; Bibliography Without Author; Chapter 6: Critical Events; From the Soviet Period to the Civil War; Back to Normality in the Village; Caught Again in Political Conflicts
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 958.6086; 306; Terrorism -- Tajikistan; Tajikistan -- History; Tajikistan -- Politics and government; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030038434; 3030038432
• Related ISBNs: 3030038424; 9783030038427
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2019).
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