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A senior member of Tajikistan’s Islamic Revival Party (IRP) has complained to Keston News Service that compulsory attestation of imams by a joint religious and government commission in one district alone of the country’s northern Sogd region has seen more than a fifth sacked for alleged sympathy with his party’s views. Keston News Service – […]
At a conference in Moscow on cooperation between government and religious organizations on 10 October, Viktor Zorkaltsev, chairman of the State Duma’s Committee on Public and Religious Organizations, called for creating a center in Russia for the training of Islamic clerics in order to provide Russia with greater “spiritual security” and to limit the training […]
This news item was originally published by RFE/RL, (Un)Civil Societies, Vol. 3, No. 42, 16 October 2002. Copyright © 2002. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org
The closure of a number of mosques has led to speculation of an imminent government campaign against the Islamic opposition. IWPR – 18 September 2002 – The Tajik authorities have closed eight mosques close to the Uzbek and Kyrgyz borders in an unprecedented crackdown on Islamic clerics and teachers who practice without state approval. Fifteen imam-khatibs […]
This article was first published on 18 September 2002 (RCA No. 147) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
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A respected religious leader has warned that the government’s crackdown on Islamic extremism will backfire, radicalising ordinary Muslims. IWPR – 13 August 2002 – Uzbekistan’s most respected spiritual leader has publicly announced his views of the government’s religious policy for the first time, describing the current situation as “totally absurd“. Sheikh Mukhammad Sodyk Mukhammad Yusuf expressed […]
This article was first published on 7 June 2002 (RCA No. 137) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
In the wake of a visit between 15 and 20 May to the Uzbek city of Bukhara (500 kilometres or 300 miles west of Tashkent), the “capital” of the Sufi Naqshbandi order in Central Asia, Keston has learnt that currently the Uzbek authorities are not simply not opposing the spread of the Naqshbandi order but, […]
Reversing centuries of tradition, Turkish authorities have decided that women will be allowed to participate more actively in the country’s public religious life, arguing they should be granted responsibilities equal to those of men before Islam. The move appears to be an attempt on the part of religious authorities in the predominantly Muslim but strictly […]
This article was first published on 25 May 2002 by RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty). Posted on RELIGIOSCOPE with permission. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East, funded by the United States Congress. RELIGIOSCOPE highly recommends the RFE/RL website, with its informative daily newsline and various other reports: http://www.rferl.org
The Azerbaijani government, apparently concerned over religious extremism and corruption, is cracking down on the country’s main Muslim organisation. When the government set up a special body to deal with religious groups last year, its founders said it had limited ambitions. But over the last few months, the new office, State Committee for Relations with […]
Gulnara Mamedzade is a correspondent with Echo newspaper in Baku.
This article was first published on 12 April 2002 (CRS No. 124) by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London. Posted on Religioscope with permission.
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Nearly 2 million Muslims descended on Saudi Arabia in February for the hajj, the pilgrimage required at least once in the lifetime of all Islamic faithful able to make the trip. Muslim clergy customarily use the occasion for sermons on established themes, including calls for Islamic unity. RFE/RL correspondent Don Hill talks to Muslim scholars […]
This article was first published on 26 February 2002 by RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty). Posted on RELIGIOSCOPE with permission. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East, funded by the United States Congress. RELIGIOSCOPE highly recommends the RFE/RL website, with its informative daily newsline and various other reports: http://www.rferl.org/
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