Contextualized violence

Politics and terror in Dagestan

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11047797
AutoresМ А Ибрагимов (Institute of History), Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov, Кимитака Мацузато (0000-0002-6995-7658, Hokkaido University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen42
Número2
Páginas286-306
Fecha de publicación2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2013.867932
OpenAlexW1990386108
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas2

Despite the escalating terrorist actions, there is no polarized constellation in the Islamic politics of Dagestan. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) officers regard the corrupt Dagestan authorities to be significantly responsible for the massive conversion of youths to terrorism, and began to contact with moderate Salafis to isolate the “forest brothers” (armed Salafis) in 2010. Exploiting the FSB's soft strategy, secular intellectuals requested to reform the Muslim Spiritual Board of Dagestan by electing a legitimate mufti. Having seen the incompetence of intra-Sufi opposition (non-Avar sheikhs) in the War on Terror, the Spiritual Board jumped on the bandwagon of dialog strategy in 2012. The secular authorities of Dagestan, indifferent to intra-Muslim politics, limit their activities to the call for dialog between the secular authorities and the forest brothers. In this way, political actors hijack the master narrative of the “War on Terror” and these narratives are imported to local politics

Criminology · Islam · Literature · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · History · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Soviet and Russian History · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence