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Islamic Leadership in the European Lands of the Former Ottoman and Russian Empires
Legacy, Challenges and Change
Series: - Muslim Minorities, Volume: 23
In Islamic Leadership in the European Lands of the Former Ottoman and Russian Empires the history and contemporary development of Islamic leadership in over a dozen of Eastern European countries is analysed. The studies are presented through a double prism: the institutional structures of the Muslim communities and the place of the muftiates in the current national constellations on one hand, and the dimension of the spiritual guidance emanating from the muftiates on the other. The latter includes aspects such as the muftiatesâ powers and role in supervision of mosques and other religious institutions, production, dissemination and control of religious knowledge and discussions on traditional and non-traditional forms of Islam engaged in by the muftiates.
This is the first comprehensive edited volume on the subject.
Contributors are: SrÄan BariÅ¡iÄ, Ayder Bulatov, Marko Hadjdinjak, Olsi Jazexhi, Memli Sh. Krasniqi, Armend Mehmeti, Dino MujadževiÄ, Agata S. Nalborczyk, EgdÅ«nas RaÄius, Aziz Nazmi Shakir, Vitalii Shchepanskyi, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, DaÅ¡a SlabÄanka, Aid SmajiÄ, Irina Vainovski-Mihai, Mykhaylo Yakubovych, and Galina Yemelianova.
This is the first comprehensive edited volume on the subject.
Contributors are: SrÄan BariÅ¡iÄ, Ayder Bulatov, Marko Hadjdinjak, Olsi Jazexhi, Memli Sh. Krasniqi, Armend Mehmeti, Dino MujadževiÄ, Agata S. Nalborczyk, EgdÅ«nas RaÄius, Aziz Nazmi Shakir, Vitalii Shchepanskyi, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, DaÅ¡a SlabÄanka, Aid SmajiÄ, Irina Vainovski-Mihai, Mykhaylo Yakubovych, and Galina Yemelianova.
EgdÅ«nas RaÄius, Ph.D. (2004), University of Helsinki, Finland, is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He has published several dozen articles on Muslims in Europe and the monograph Muslims in Eastern Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
Antonina Zhelyazkova, Ph.D. (1983), is Chairperson of the Board of Directors at the International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, Bulgaria. She is Associate Professor of Urgent Anthropology and Ethnology at the Faculty of History of St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. She has published monographs and many articles on minorities in the Balkans. She is author and editor of the three-volume series on urgent anthropology Problems of Multiethnicity in the Western Balkans.
Antonina Zhelyazkova, Ph.D. (1983), is Chairperson of the Board of Directors at the International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia, Bulgaria. She is Associate Professor of Urgent Anthropology and Ethnology at the Faculty of History of St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia. She has published monographs and many articles on minorities in the Balkans. She is author and editor of the three-volume series on urgent anthropology Problems of Multiethnicity in the Western Balkans.
List of Contributors
1 Introduction: Rationale of the Book
âAntonina Zhelyazkova and EgdÅ«nas RaÄius
2 Historical Retrospective on Muftiship: Muftis, State Muftis and Official Muftis
âJakob Skovgaard-Petersen
3 Ottoman and Yugoslav Legacy
âDino MujadževiÄ
4 Albania
âOlsi Jazexhi
5 Bosnia and Hercegovina
âAid SmajiÄ
6 Bulgaria
âAziz Shakir
7 Croatia
âDino MujadževiÄ
8 Kosovo
âArmend Mehmeti and Memli Sh. Krasniqi
9 Romania
âIrina Vainovski-Mihai
10 Serbia
âSrÄan BariÅ¡iÄ
11 Slovenia
âMarko Hajdinjak
12 Islamic Leadership: The Russian and Soviet Legacy
âGalina M. Yemelianova
13 Belarus
âDaÅ¡a SlabÄanka
14 Lithuania
âEgdÅ«nas RaÄius
15 Poland
âAgata S. Nalborczyk
16 Ukraine
âMykhaylo Yakubovych, Vitalii Shchepanskyi and Ayder Bulatov
17 Epilogue: Drawing Parallels
âEgdÅ«nas RaÄius and Antonina Zhelyazkova
Index
1 Introduction: Rationale of the Book
âAntonina Zhelyazkova and EgdÅ«nas RaÄius
2 Historical Retrospective on Muftiship: Muftis, State Muftis and Official Muftis
âJakob Skovgaard-Petersen
Part 1
3 Ottoman and Yugoslav Legacy
âDino MujadževiÄ
4 Albania
âOlsi Jazexhi
5 Bosnia and Hercegovina
âAid SmajiÄ
6 Bulgaria
âAziz Shakir
7 Croatia
âDino MujadževiÄ
8 Kosovo
âArmend Mehmeti and Memli Sh. Krasniqi
9 Romania
âIrina Vainovski-Mihai
10 Serbia
âSrÄan BariÅ¡iÄ
11 Slovenia
âMarko Hajdinjak
Part 2
12 Islamic Leadership: The Russian and Soviet Legacy
âGalina M. Yemelianova
13 Belarus
âDaÅ¡a SlabÄanka
14 Lithuania
âEgdÅ«nas RaÄius
15 Poland
âAgata S. Nalborczyk
16 Ukraine
âMykhaylo Yakubovych, Vitalii Shchepanskyi and Ayder Bulatov
17 Epilogue: Drawing Parallels
âEgdÅ«nas RaÄius and Antonina Zhelyazkova
Index
All those in social sciences and humanities interested in the history and contemporary development of Muslim communities, and particularly their Islamic leadership (in the person of muftiates), in Eastern Europe.