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A Contested Muslim Identity in Kazakhstan: Between Liberal Islam and the Hanafi Project
Author(s)
Nodar Karimov
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2018.05.004
Affiliation(s)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Astana, Kazakhstan
ABSTRACT
The liberal pattern in
Islam displayed itself at different points in the history of Kazakhstan through
quasi state models of political organization, governance networks, multiethnic
and multireligious societies, individual freedoms, and syncretic essence of
Islam in the local culture. This paper examines the role of liberal pattern in
the evolution of Islam in Kazakhstan based on historical and antropological
analysis to call into question the state’s ongoing efforts to plant the
authoritarian interpretation of Islam epitomized in the so-called Hanafi
project. The notion of the Hanafi project is offered as the antithesis to
classical Islamic Hanafi School, which is manipulated by the state to mask the
imposition of the secular national policy in the religious domain.
KEYWORDS
Islam, Muslim identity, liberal pattern, Hanafi project, social contract, governance networks, multiculturalism
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