Chapter 1: Hybrid Intentionality and Exogenous Sources of the
Elite's Manifold Attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan: Geography,
Soviet Legacy, and the Quest for Western Recognition
Chapter 2: The Complicity of the Domestic Populace, Secular
Opposition, Civil Society, and the International Community in
Reproducing the Religious Secular Divide and the Representation of
Islam as a Threat
Chapter 3: The Contextual Dialectics of Elite Attitudes to Islam in
Azerbaijan
Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Change: The Bridging of the
Religious-Secular Divide and the Normalization of Islamic Discourse
across Azerbaijan's Social-Political Landscape
Chapter 5: Normalization of Islamic Discourse and the Future of
Islam in Azerbaijan: Quo Vadis?
Chapter 6: A Shared Landscape of Islamism across the Secularized
Middle East
Murad Ismayilov is doctoral researcher in development studies and research fellow at the Central Asia Forum at the University of Cambridge.
This is an excellent book. It makes a very important contribution
not only to analyses of the contemporary politics of Azerbaijan,
but also to theoretically informed empirical processes of—and
imbrication with—secularism, religion, national identity, state
formation, etc. It should be essential reading for anyone
interested in these issues anywhere.
*Pervaiz Nazir, University of Cambridge*
Murad Ismayilov offers us a dynamic analysis of challenging issues
and developments in Azerbaijan, an intriguing country about which
we all deserve to know more. But we gain much extra, too, with
insights into Islamic identity and secularization more broadly, and
regarding the phenomena of religion and identity in themselves and
widely applicable beyond the country and its region.
*Rick Fawn*
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