Michael Kemper
Biographic Data
| ID | 701367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kemper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemper |
| SIGNATURE | KEMPER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6676-9563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
After Deportation
The present paper investigates the history of the Kunta-Hajji (Qadiriyya) Sufi groups ( vird s) of Chechen and Ingush deportees during their enforced exile in Soviet Kazakhstan (1944–1957/1963). On the basis of anthropological fieldwork among survivors, returnees, and their offspring, the authors argue that the Ingush and Chechen deportees perceived the vird s as an important moral support network and a pillar of their identity in a foreign and i…
Empire of Refugees
God Save the USSR
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan
The present article analyzes the recent fatwa production by two of Russia’s major muftiates, the traditionalist Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan ( DUMRT ) in Kazan and the modernist Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation ( DUMRF ) in Moscow. The author investigates the methodologies that Russia’s muftis follow when elaborating fatwas, and the global links that surface from their source bases.…
Egdūnas Račius, Islam in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. Between Churchification and Securitization
Liberal Islamic Theology in Conservative Russia
This article studies the work of the Moscow-based Syrian academic scholar Taufik Ibragim. Originally a Marxist historian of Islamic philosophy and kalām, after the end of the ussr Ibragim became one of Russia's most authoritative scholars also of the Qurʾān and the Islamic tradition more broadly. Since the mid-2000s, Ibragim has publicly propagated the concept of "Qurʾānic humanism", which is meant to demonstrate the tolerance of the Qurʾān and t…
Preserving Islamic Tradition
Nathan Spannaus’ monograph, based on his 2012 dissertation, examines and contextualizes the Arabic-language writings of Abū Naṣr al-Qūrṣāwī (1776–1812), a Tatar scholar of Russia’s Middle Volga/Kama (‘Bulghār’) region. Qūrṣāwī gained notoriety for his rejection of taqlīd and his call for ijtihād in issues of Islamic law, as well as for his theological treatises and commentaries in which he disputed some mainstream assertions of Māturīdī kalām. Th…
In memoriam. Amri Rzaevich Shikhsaidov (20 March 1928–21 September 2019)
Soviet and Muslim. The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991,written by Eren Tasar, 2017
Religious political technology
This contribution introduces the concept of ‘religious political technology’ (RPT), using as a case study the strategies of Damir Mukhetdinov, deputy mufti of the Moscow-based muftiate DUMRF. RPT encompasses the construction and professional dissemination of an ideological platform that presents religion – in this case Islam – as an asset to the state and the nation. Mukhetdinov’s RPT is historically enrooted in Russia’s Islamic discourse (throug…
Sufism in Central Asia
This volume takes stock of research conducted on Sufi history in Central Asia since the opening up of the region’s written and oral archives in the early 1990s. As Dewin DeWeese reminds us in his p
A.E. Shmidt
Islamic Leadership in the European Lands of the Former Ottoman and Russian Empires
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c. 1760-1870, written by Thomas S.R.O. Flynn OP, 2016
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
The Theology of Louis Massignon
The Theology of Louis Massignon: Islam, Christ, and the Church." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 29(4), pp. 525–526
Orthodoxy and Islam
This monograph provides an outline of policies on Islam in Greece, on the one hand, and on the status of the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate (EOP) in Istanbul, on the other. Given that the author
Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Originally published in French in 2013, Bougarel’s book presents a clear and concise political history of Bosnia-Herzegovina since the late nineteenth century, with a focus on the relation between Islam and national identity in the discourse of Bosnian Muslim elites. In particular, the book analyses the history of the country’s Islamic institution—the Islamic Community headed by a Mufti, the reis-ul-ulema—and the positions of its major Islamic th…
The interplay of Qadimism and Jadidism in twentiethcentury Dagestan
The paper analyzes the interplay of Jadidism and “Qadimism” in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, focusing on the question of educational methods – the usul-i jadid (“new method”) – since the early 20th century. While in the Tatar lands of Russia, Jadidism began as a new way in the teaching of one’s native Tatar language, in the multi-ethnic context of Dagestan the issue of pedagogy was important also for the transmission of Arabic. The autho…
Podarok uchenym i uteshenie prosveshchennym
Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions
Islam and the Orthodox Church in contemporary Russia are usually studied in isolation from each other, and each in relation to the Kremlin; the latter demands the development of a home-grown and patriotic ‘religious traditionalism, as a bulwark against subversive ‘non-traditional’ imports. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on charismatic missionaries from both religions who bypass the hierarchies of their respective faith organizations an…
Between Salafism and Eurasianism
Geidar Dzhemal was arguably the best-known mouthpiece of radical Islam in the contemporary Russia media world: with his broad erudition in Western philosophy, Abrahamic theology and world history, he easily upstaged most official representatives of Islam in the country. While his Islamic project borrowed heavily from Marxist thinking, Dzhemal’s non-conformist teaching and his personal charisma also made him famous among right-wing thinkers, who s…
Uyghur Nation
This book is largely about activists from two Turkic-speaking Muslim communities from Xinjiang, the Taranchis (who in the early 1880s, after a brief Russian occupation of Xinjiang’s Ili Valley, emi
Imperial Russia’s Muslims
From 1917 to 1937
The Tatar religious scholar Rizaeddin Fakhreddinov (1859-1936) is well-known as a Jadīd publicist and historian, but his time as qāḍī and muftī of Soviet Russia (1918-36) is still unexplored. Muftī Fakhreddinov witnessed the Bolsheviks' gradual elimination of all Islamic community life. In 1935 he considered saving his personal archive from destruction by transferring it to the Institute of Oriental Studies in Leningrad, the director of which, Tu…
Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions
Islam and the Orthodox Church in contemporary Russia are usually studied in isolation from each other, and each in relation to the Kremlin; the latter demands the development of a home-grown and patriotic ‘religious traditionalism, as a bulwark against subversive ‘non-traditional’ imports. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on charismatic missionaries from both religions who bypass the hierarchies of their respective faith organizations an…
Religious political technology
This contribution introduces the concept of ‘religious political technology’ (RPT), using as a case study the strategies of Damir Mukhetdinov, deputy mufti of the Moscow-based muftiate DUMRF. RPT encompasses the construction and professional dissemination of an ideological platform that presents religion – in this case Islam – as an asset to the state and the nation. Mukhetdinov’s RPT is historically enrooted in Russia’s Islamic discourse (throug…
The Soviet Discourse on the Origin and Class Character of Islam, 1923-1933
The article examines the growing radicalization of the Marxist anti-Islamic discourse in the USSR as a case-study of "Soviet Orientalism". To which of Marx's five socio-economic formations should Muslim society be assigned? During the relatively pluralistic period of the New Economic Policy (1921-1927) Marxist scholars offered various answers. Many argued that Islam emerged from the trading community of Mecca and was trade-capitalist by nature (M…
Khālidiyya Networks in Daghestan and the Question of Jihād
There is no doubt that the Naqshbandiyya Khalidiyya Sufi order played an important role in Daghestan during the jihad under the Three Imams (1828-1859). As the anti-colonial struggle of the mountaineers against Russia and her Muslim allies became famous under the name of Muridism, many Western, as well as Russian, historians believe that the Naqshbandiyya Khalidiyya Sufi order provided the political and spiritual leadership to Shamil's murnds,2 a…
Entre Boukhara et la Moyenne-Volga
Michael Kemper, Entre Boukhara et la Moyenne-Volga : AAbd an-Naşîr al-Qûrşâwî (1776- 1812) en conflit avec les oulémas traditionalistes. Pendant les siècles qui suivirent la conquête de Kazan par Ivan le Terrible, les grandes madrasa de Boukhara jouèrent un rôle central dans la transmission du savoir islamique dans la communauté tatare musulmane de la région Volga-Oural, désormais soumise aux campagnes de christianisation menées par l'État russe.…
Between Salafism and Eurasianism
Geidar Dzhemal was arguably the best-known mouthpiece of radical Islam in the contemporary Russia media world: with his broad erudition in Western philosophy, Abrahamic theology and world history, he easily upstaged most official representatives of Islam in the country. While his Islamic project borrowed heavily from Marxist thinking, Dzhemal’s non-conformist teaching and his personal charisma also made him famous among right-wing thinkers, who s…
Uyghur Nation
This book is largely about activists from two Turkic-speaking Muslim communities from Xinjiang, the Taranchis (who in the early 1880s, after a brief Russian occupation of Xinjiang’s Ili Valley, emi
Red Orientalism
Marxist Oriental Studies in early Soviet Russia emerged in opposition to the 'bourgeois' Russian tradition of classical Oriental scholarship; rather than studying texts and history, Bolshevik Orientalists saw their task in providing the Soviet government with the necessary political and socio-economic knowledge to support the liberation of the contemporary East from colonialism and imperialism. After a failed attempt to stir revolutions in the Mu…
Liberal Islamic Theology in Conservative Russia
This article studies the work of the Moscow-based Syrian academic scholar Taufik Ibragim. Originally a Marxist historian of Islamic philosophy and kalām, after the end of the ussr Ibragim became one of Russia's most authoritative scholars also of the Qurʾān and the Islamic tradition more broadly. Since the mid-2000s, Ibragim has publicly propagated the concept of "Qurʾānic humanism", which is meant to demonstrate the tolerance of the Qurʾān and t…
Preserving Islamic Tradition
Nathan Spannaus’ monograph, based on his 2012 dissertation, examines and contextualizes the Arabic-language writings of Abū Naṣr al-Qūrṣāwī (1776–1812), a Tatar scholar of Russia’s Middle Volga/Kama (‘Bulghār’) region. Qūrṣāwī gained notoriety for his rejection of taqlīd and his call for ijtihād in issues of Islamic law, as well as for his theological treatises and commentaries in which he disputed some mainstream assertions of Māturīdī kalām. Th…
Sufism in Central Asia
This volume takes stock of research conducted on Sufi history in Central Asia since the opening up of the region’s written and oral archives in the early 1990s. As Dewin DeWeese reminds us in his p
The interplay of Qadimism and Jadidism in twentiethcentury Dagestan
The paper analyzes the interplay of Jadidism and “Qadimism” in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, focusing on the question of educational methods – the usul-i jadid (“new method”) – since the early 20th century. While in the Tatar lands of Russia, Jadidism began as a new way in the teaching of one’s native Tatar language, in the multi-ethnic context of Dagestan the issue of pedagogy was important also for the transmission of Arabic. The autho…
For Prophet and Tsar
Adat Against Shari’a
В ходе долгой кавказской войны против исламского сопротивления, возглавляемого дагестанскими имамами (ок. 1828-1859 гг.), и после ее завершения российская военная администрация пыталась противопоставить обычное право ( адаты ) системе мусульманского права. Однако для того, чтобы использовать обычное право, его следовало не только собрать, но и кодифицировать, “переведя” на юридический язык, понятный новой власти. В 1840-х и 1860-х гг. российские …
Communal Agreements (ittifāqāt) and 'ādāt-Books from Daghestani Villages and Confederacies (18th–19th Centuries)
The Daghestani legal discourse on the Imamate
(2002). The Daghestani legal discourse on the Imamate. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 265-278
Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries
Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries
Entre Boukhara et la Moyenne-Volga
Michael Kemper, Entre Boukhara et la Moyenne-Volga : AAbd an-Naşîr al-Qûrşâwî (1776- 1812) en conflit avec les oulémas traditionalistes. Pendant les siècles qui suivirent la conquête de Kazan par Ivan le Terrible, les grandes madrasa de Boukhara jouèrent un rôle central dans la transmission du savoir islamique dans la communauté tatare musulmane de la région Volga-Oural, désormais soumise aux campagnes de christianisation menées par l'État russe.…
Einige Notizen zur arabischsprachigen Literatur der gihäd- Bewegung in Dagestan und Tschetschenien in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Einige Notizen zur arabischsprachigen Literatur der gihäd- Bewegung in Dagestan und Tschetschenien in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts was published in Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries on page 63
Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries
Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia
Irène Mélikoff
"IRÈNE MÉLIKOFF: Hadji Bektach.Unmytheet ses avatars. Genèse et évolutiondusoufisme populaire en Turquie. - Leiden, Boston, Köln, Brill 1998, 317 S., 1 Illustr. (Islamic History and Civilization, Studies and Texts, vol. 20)." published on 01 Jan 2001 by Brill
Hadji Bektach. Un mythe et ses avatars. Genèse et évolution du soufisme populaire en Turquie
The Daghestani legal discourse on the Imamate
(2002). The Daghestani legal discourse on the Imamate. Central Asian Survey: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 265-278
Khālidiyya Networks in Daghestan and the Question of Jihād
There is no doubt that the Naqshbandiyya Khalidiyya Sufi order played an important role in Daghestan during the jihad under the Three Imams (1828-1859). As the anti-colonial struggle of the mountaineers against Russia and her Muslim allies became famous under the name of Muridism, many Western, as well as Russian, historians believe that the Naqshbandiyya Khalidiyya Sufi order provided the political and spiritual leadership to Shamil's murnds,2 a…
Communal Agreements (ittifāqāt) and 'ādāt-Books from Daghestani Villages and Confederacies (18th–19th Centuries)
Muslim Culture in Russia and Central Asia
Rechtspluralismus in der Islamischen Welt
The authors of this volume examine the relations between state law (colonial and post-colonial), Islamic law and common law in the Islamic world. The geographical scope of the twenty papers extends from Muslim Andalusia and North Africa across Osman South-Eastern Europe, the Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, the Northern Caucasus and Central Europe to Uighuria (China) and Indonesia. Particular emphasis is placed on the Muslim societies of the Russian Emp…
Adat Against Shari’a
В ходе долгой кавказской войны против исламского сопротивления, возглавляемого дагестанскими имамами (ок. 1828-1859 гг.), и после ее завершения российская военная администрация пыталась противопоставить обычное право ( адаты ) системе мусульманского права. Однако для того, чтобы использовать обычное право, его следовало не только собрать, но и кодифицировать, “переведя” на юридический язык, понятный новой власти. В 1840-х и 1860-х гг. российские …
‘Adat against Shari’a
It is common knowledge that in the 19th century many European colonial empires acknowledged or even supported the official use of local ‘adat (“customary law”) in their colonies. This was mostly done out of necessity, for it was believed that a direct interference with the local tradition of administering justice would have provoked hostility from the local population and thus constitute a danger for the colonial rule. The replacement of customar…
The Changing Images of Jihad Leaders
This article studies the images of two famous jihad leaders of the nineteenth century, the Daghestani Shamil (d. 1871) and the Algerian Abd al-Qadir (d. 1883), in Daghestani/Russian and in Algerian historiography. A combined horizontal and vertical perspective is applied to compare the sequence of new historical interpretations in both countries over time. In particular, the article discusses (1) nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Arabic bio…
Caucasus
For Prophet and Tsar
Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus
The thirteen ‘chapters’ of this very welcome volume deal mainly with the republics of the Northern Caucasus. The individual contributions vary widely in scope and approach, and unfortunately there are no cross-references between them. In general, however, the volume provides good insight into the political processes since the 1990s, and especially into the growing Islamization of initially secular ethnic movements and the states’ failure to react…
How to take the Muslim Peripheries Seriously in the Writing of Imperial History
В рецензии Михаэля Кемпера объединен разбор двух томов из серии “Окраины Российской империи” – “Северный Кавказ в составе Российской империи” и “Средняя Азия в составе Российской империи”. Анализ двух книг проведен рецензентом с точки зрения востоковедческой перспективы. Кемпер ставит проблему самой возможности описания мусульманских сообществ в рамках политической истории Российской империи и историографической традиции, которая игнорирует восто…
Studying Islam in the Soviet Union
Ons beeld van de islam in de Sovjet-Unie is de laatste drie decennia erg veranderd. Tijdens de periode van de Koude oorlog bekeken Westelijke waarnemers hoofdzakelijk of de islam - en vooral soefi broederschap - een politieke en militaire bedreiging zouden kunnen vormen voor de heerschappij van Moskou in Centraal Azië en de Kaukasus. Dit in tegenstelling tot Russische onderzoekers, die in het soefisme een bedreiging zagen, omdat de heiligdommen v…
Islam after Communism
The Soviet Discourse on the Origin and Class Character of Islam, 1923-1933
The article examines the growing radicalization of the Marxist anti-Islamic discourse in the USSR as a case-study of "Soviet Orientalism". To which of Marx's five socio-economic formations should Muslim society be assigned? During the relatively pluralistic period of the New Economic Policy (1921-1927) Marxist scholars offered various answers. Many argued that Islam emerged from the trading community of Mecca and was trade-capitalist by nature (M…
Red Orientalism
Marxist Oriental Studies in early Soviet Russia emerged in opposition to the 'bourgeois' Russian tradition of classical Oriental scholarship; rather than studying texts and history, Bolshevik Orientalists saw their task in providing the Soviet government with the necessary political and socio-economic knowledge to support the liberation of the contemporary East from colonialism and imperialism. After a failed attempt to stir revolutions in the Mu…
Ijtihad into philosophy
Starting in 1960, authors of various Daghestani nationalities initiated a re-evaluation of the role of Islam in the history of Daghestan. An important historical personality to draw upon was Muhammad al-Quduqi, a Daghestani Islamic legal scholar of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Quduqi was known for his sympathies towards ijtihad (Islamic legal reasoning by analogy) and for his call to replace customary law by Islamic law. T…
Reassessing Orientalism
1. Introduction: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Michael Kemper Part 1: Origins and Comparisons 2. Orients Compared: US and Soviet Imaginaries of the Modern Middle East Masha Kirasirova Part 2: Transfers 3. From Tents to Citadels: The Transfer of Oriental Archaeology to Soviet Kazakhstan Alfrid K. Bustanov 4. 'Ulama'-Orientalists: Madrasa Graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies Bakhtiyar M. Ba…
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