Conflict and Catharsis
A Report on Developments in Dagestan Following the Incursions of August and September 1999
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enver Kisriev (Dagestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author), Robert Bruce Ware (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 479-522 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713687475 |
| OpenAlex | W2264910505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
There was a fateful inevitability to the military actions in Dagestan that began on 2 August 1999 and concluded on 16 September. During the 2 years preceding, tensions within Dagestan's Islamic community had been building between fundamentalist Wahhabis and traditionalists. These tensions were exacerbated by Dagestan's sharp economic decline. Unemployment, which was running at 80% by August, contributed to growing dissatisfaction, especially in Dagestan's rural regions. These tensions reached critical proportions in the Botliksky rayon, particularly among young men belonging to the Andi ethno-linguistic sub-group of the Avars. Many of the latter were attracted to military training camps operated in Chechnya by Emir al Khattab, leader of the Wahhabite Islamic djamaat (village or connected group of villages) at Karamakhi, Chabanmakhi and Kadar, and by Shamyl Basayev, leader of the Islamic Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan. In these camps rural Dagestani alienation met Chechen militancy and international Islamic fundamentalist support. Meanwhile Wahhabism grew increasingly influential in Chechnya as rival political leaders appealed to puritanical Islam in order to bolster their claims to authority and legitimize their political agendas
Alienation · Catharsis · Chechen · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts · Psychology · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
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| Citation span | 2001 - 2017 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |