A significant body of Muslim religious rites, with roots in Sufi devotional practice, continued to be conducted in Central Asia well into the Soviet era, despite Soviet antireligious policies and pressures. Reflecting communal adaptations of the Sufi dhikr, or âremembranceâ of God, as part of healing or funerary ceremonies, these rites were reclassified, in Soviet ethnographic literature, as vestiges of âshamanism,â and thus largely escaped notice by western observers of âSoviet Islam,â who imagined âSufismâ in terms of clandestine militant organizations intent on undermining the Soviet regime. This paper explores the reclassification of Sufi activity as shamanism, notes historical evidence on the diffusion of Sufi rites into wider public circles, and suggests some implications of these developments for our understanding of Soviet Islam, Central Asian Sufism, and the phenomena of âshamanism.â
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V. N. Basilov, Shamanstvo u narodov Srednei Azii i Kazakhstana (Moscow: Nauka, 1992): 295.
G. P. Snesarev, Relikty domusulâmanskikh verovanii i obriadov u uzbekov Khorezma (Moscow: Nauka, 1969): 261, 270. An English translation of this book was published in the journal Soviet Anthropology and Archeology from 1970 through 1977, under the title âRemnants of the Pre-Islamic Beliefs and Rituals among the Khorezm Uzbeks;â see 13/2 (Fall 1974): 25, and 16/2 (Spring 1977): 7-8 for the corresponding passages.
Iu. V. Knorozov, âMazar Shamun-nabi.â Sovetskaia ètnografiia 2 (1949): 86-97; Iu. V. Knorozov, âShamanskii zikr v podzemelâe Mazlumkhan-sulu.â Ãtnograficheskoe obozrenie 6 (1994): 91-96. The latter article includes Knorozovâs revealing comment that one of the âshamansâ he observed had asked him not to mention the zikr if he should happen to meet with Abdulla Ermanov, the âinspector of the Muslim faithâ for the Karakalpak assr, who, the leader of the ceremony explained, did not like porkhans.
See P. Garrone, Chamanisme et islam en Asie centrale: La Baksylyk hier et aujourdâhui (Paris: Librairie dâAmérique et dâOrient Jean Maisonneuve, 2000). Garrone straightforwardly adopts the understanding of âbaqsïlïqâ as âan Islamized shamanismâ (150), and offers no discussion or analysis of the impact of Soviet categories or of the Soviet (or any) analytical framework for religious life; he acknowledges (3) that his work rests upon Soviet publications, especially Basilov, and it is clear throughout the work that his fieldwork was conducted under the assumptions rooted in that previous work. There is, in addition, no discussion at all of the specific ritual terminology, i.e. of jahr/zikr/samÄÊ¿/á¹£adr. In his concluding discussion on âbaksylykâ and Sufism (242-254), he is content to speak of âinterpenetrationâ without insisting upon a specific developmental sequence, but the presentation nevertheless assumes âshamanismâ as a pre-existing substrate that might be affected by, and might act upon, âSufismâ to yield the phenomenon of âbaqsïlïqâ observed over the past century; the possibility of interpreting baqsïlïq as in effect Sufism affected by shamanic modalities is not raised. See also P. Garrone, âAperçu sur le chamanisme islamisé dâAsie centrale post-soviétique.â In La politique des esprits: Chamanismes et religions universalistes, ed. D. Aigle, B. Brac de la Perrière, and J.-P. Chaumeil (Nanterre: Société dâethnologie, 2000): 371-381.
See A. A. Divaev, âIz oblasti kirgizskikh verovanii: Baksy, kak lekarâ i koldun (Ãtnograficheskii ocherk).â Izvestiia Obshchestva arkheologii, istorii i ètnografii pri Kazanskom universitete 15 (1899): 307-344, and separately (Kazan, 1899). For an insightful discussion of interpretative approaches to Qazaq religion, see the first chapter of B. G. Privratsky, Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective Memory (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001).
M. Rakhimov, âObychai i obriady, sviazannye so smertâiu i pokhoronami u tadzhikov Kuliabskoi oblasti.â Izvestiia Otdeleniia obshchestvennykh nauk AN TadzhSSR 3 (1953): 114.
See M. A. Khamidzhanova, âMuzhskie dzhakhry v pokhoronnykh obriadakh tadzhikov verkhovâev Zeravshana.â Ãtnografiia Tadzhikistana (Dushanbe: Donish, 1985): 54-58: the name jahr is applied to collective dances by men around the empty bier of the deceased, or sometimes around the body on the bier, observed in villages of the upper Zerafshan valley, and in the FarghÄna valley. In these dances, which usually take place before the deceased is washed and laid on the bier, the men form a circle (or in some cases two or three concentric rings) around the empty bier, with hands on each otherâs shoulders, and move slowly, with small steps, in one direction (or in alternating directions if there are several circles); they bow and straighten up in unison, all the while repeating the chant âHÄ«, ha, oblohÄ«â. After one circle is turned, four men lift up the bier in the center, and the movement begins again; when another circle is completed, the four women closest to the deceased stand beneath the raised bier and beat their chests slowly, to the rhythm of the same chant. The dances sometimes last two or three hours, and are followed by the washing of the body and its placement on the bier, and then by the funeral prayers ( janÄza); the men then bear the body away, but the women continue to dance and wail until the men return from the cemetery. This author says that it is these womenâs dances, which he says are found often in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, that are called by the terms sadir and samaʾ.
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A significant body of Muslim religious rites, with roots in Sufi devotional practice, continued to be conducted in Central Asia well into the Soviet era, despite Soviet antireligious policies and pressures. Reflecting communal adaptations of the Sufi dhikr, or âremembranceâ of God, as part of healing or funerary ceremonies, these rites were reclassified, in Soviet ethnographic literature, as vestiges of âshamanism,â and thus largely escaped notice by western observers of âSoviet Islam,â who imagined âSufismâ in terms of clandestine militant organizations intent on undermining the Soviet regime. This paper explores the reclassification of Sufi activity as shamanism, notes historical evidence on the diffusion of Sufi rites into wider public circles, and suggests some implications of these developments for our understanding of Soviet Islam, Central Asian Sufism, and the phenomena of âshamanism.â
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