Islamic Groups of Crimea: Discourses and Politics

Abstract

This article is based on results of the research project “The past, present, and future in the discourse of the Muslim community of Crimea,” using participant observation and interviews conducted in 2012. Focus is on analysis of diverse interviews with elite Muslim leaders from the groups Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Crimea (SAMC), Spiritual Center of Muslims of Crimea (SCMC), the Crimean Branch of the All-Ukrainian Association of Social Organizations Alraid and the Crimean wing of “Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami” (the Islamic Party of Liberation). A sample of their supporters were interviewed as well.

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Islamic Groups of Crimea: Discourses and Politics

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English translation © 2014, 2015 Taylor & Francis, from the Russian text © 2013 the authors and KFU Publisher. “Islamskie gruppy Kryma: diskursy i politika,” in Islam v mul’tikul’turnom mire (Kazan: Izd-vo KFU, 2014), pp. 104–20. Elmira Muratova, candidate of political sciences, is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Sciences and International Affairs, Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University, Simferopol, Ukraine.The research was conducted jointly with Natalya Kouts within the framework of the “Crimea Policy Dialogue” project (PATRIR Institute, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, www.patrir.ro/crimea). Translated by Stephan Lang. Translation reprinted from Anthropology and Archeology of Eurasia, vol. 53, no. 3. doi: 10.1080/10611428.2015.1119537.