Contextualized violence

Politics and terror in Dagestan

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11047797
AutoresМ А Ибрагимов (Institute of History), Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov, Кимитака Мацузато (0000-0002-6995-7658, Hokkaido University, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume42
Fascículo2
Páginas286-306
Data de publicação2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2013.867932
OpenAlexW1990386108
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências 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