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Large-scale seasonal and international labour migration and the stark social and economic changes that it causes affect both the perception and practice of Islam in ways that challenge the usual fixation on ‘religious radicalisation’.
Dr Bruno De Cordier is with the Conflict Research Group at Ghent University.
Once-powerful force is suing local bureaucrats who are trying to stop it fielding candidates in the forthcoming general election. The Islamic Rebirth Party says the authorities in Tajikistan are deliberately obstructing it from fighting the parliamentary election scheduled for February 27.
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“During the many centuries that Islam has been present in our region, it has become a substantial part of our culture and history. Therefore Islam is regarded not only as a religion of most of the population of the country but as a substantial and organic part of the historical culture. Or, we can say, one of the constituent parts of the Tajik culture.” From the end of the Bukhara Emirate to the post-Soviet times, an overview of the history and current situation of Islam in Tajikistan.
The interview with Abdullo Rahnamo took in Dushanbe in October 2003. He was interviewed by Jean-François Mayer. The tape recording was transcribed by Nancy Grivel-Burke. The transcript was revised by Prof. Rahnamo in April 2004.
The Islamic opposition party in Tajikistan has spoken out against the radical Hizb-ut-Tahrir group, in a bid to stake out a position as the only legitimate voice for Muslim political aspirations ahead of next year’s general election.
Salima Vahobzade is a reporter for the Vecherny Dushanbe newspaper.
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Following a speech by President Emomali Rakhmonov stating that three suspected Tajik terrorists have been held by the USA in Guantanamo Bay, the operation of a medressah in Northern Tajikistan is being prevented, 152 mosques were closed down, loudspeakers removed from many and 20 per cent of Imams removed from office.
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Detention and trials of suspected extremists have become routine in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. But Dushanbe and Tashkent still maintain different positions on religious activities. While Tajikistan has officially registered an Islamic party, Uzbek officials have cracked down on all Islamic groups as well as peaceful religious observers.
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Over the past three months, the local authorities in Isfara district of Tajikistan’s northern Sogd region have closed down 33 of the district’s 152 mosques, the chairman of the Isfara branch of the Islamic Revival Party, Abdusator Boboyev, told Keston News Service in the town of Isfara on 10 October. Keston News Service – 21 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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