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This book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia, encompassing Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, the Volga-Urals, Crimea, the North Caucasus, Azerbaijan and ex-Soviet Central Asia. Its analysis is positioned within the current secularism/de-secularisation debate. The book is based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including the author's interviews with Islamic official and popular leaders and authorities, which she conducted over two decades in various parts of Eurasia. The book employs a history-based perspective and compares the nature and role of official Islamic leadership and the state-Muslim relations across Eurasia with those in both the Middle East and Western Europe. It argues that in most of the post-Soviet lands, the official Islamic leadership and its relations with the state have largely retained their particular national and broader Eurasian character, which distinguishes them from what prevails in the Middle East and Western Europe. At the same time, the increasing political 'Europeanisation' of Lithuania and Ukraine since 2014 and, to some extent, Belarus, has accounted for their divergence towards the Western model of state-Muslim relations. In conclusion, it analyses the impact of globalisation and the advance of global Salafism, in particular, on Islamic leadership and state-Muslim relations across post-Soviet Eurasia.

Islamic leadership --- Muslim leadership --- Leadership --- Islamic leadership. --- Leadership islamique --- Eurasia.

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The contributions explore Muslim religious leadership in multiple forms and settings. While traditional authority is usually correlated with theology and piety, as in the case of classically trained ulema, the public advocacy of Muslim community concerns is often headed by those with professionalized skillsets and civic experience. In an increasingly digital world, both women and men exercise leadership in novel ways, and sites of authority are refracted from traditional loci, such as mosques and seminaries, to new and unexpected places. This collection provides systematic focus on a topic that has hitherto been given rather diffuse consideration. It complements historical work on community leadership as well as more contemporary discussion on the training and role of Islamic religious authorities. It will be of interest to scholars in Religious Studies, Sociology, Political Science, History, and Islamic Studies.

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The contributions explore Muslim religious leadership in multiple forms and settings. While traditional authority is usually correlated with theology and piety, as in the case of classically trained ulema, the public advocacy of Muslim community concerns is often headed by those with professionalized skillsets and civic experience. In an increasingly digital world, both women and men exercise leadership in novel ways, and sites of authority are refracted from traditional loci, such as mosques and seminaries, to new and unexpected places. This collection provides systematic focus on a topic that has hitherto been given rather diffuse consideration. It complements historical work on community leadership as well as more contemporary discussion on the training and role of Islamic religious authorities. It will be of interest to scholars in Religious Studies, Sociology, Political Science, History, and Islamic Studies.

authentic Islam --- imams --- inclusion --- mosque governance --- mosques --- Muslim women --- Islam in Britain --- British Muslims --- religious authority --- individualism --- rationalisation of religion --- representation --- leadership --- religious leadership --- religious tribunals --- Shariah tribunals --- Islamic law --- Muslim leadership --- Muslim teachers --- Muslims in Britain --- education --- religious education --- RE teachers --- tactical religion --- strategic religion --- authority --- journalism --- journalist-source relations --- civic journalism --- qualitative methods --- mosque --- conflict --- imam --- committee members --- religious/bureaucratic authority --- Islam --- Muslim --- Bangladeshi --- Britain --- Fultoli --- Fultolir Sahib --- Sylhet --- Shah Jalal --- Tablighi Jama’at --- British mosques --- Dewsbury Markaz --- Hafiz Patel --- Nizamuddin --- Islamic revival --- Deobandi --- authority and leadership --- Islamic knowledge --- gender and piety --- female Muslim authorities --- Muslim subjectivities --- Imam training --- Muslim religious leadership --- Islamic education --- darul-ulums --- Islamic studies --- British Islam --- Dar al-Uloom --- Deoband --- ulama --- tradition --- Darul Uloom --- seminary --- chaplaincy --- accreditation --- servant leadership --- paraguiding --- the jurisprudence of reality --- British Muslim history --- feminism --- feminist history --- British Muslim studies --- Media Studies --- Religious Studies --- Islamic Studies --- identity --- Fuad Nahdi --- Q-News --- Sufism --- faith-based representation --- umbrella organisation --- MCB --- civil society --- political participation --- n/a --- religious institutions --- darul uloom --- islamic education --- ulema --- Tablighi Jama'at