Islam and nationalism in Tajikistan

Abstract

Islamic resurgence is not a recent phenomenon, Islam possesses a long tradition revival (Tajdid) and refooo (Islah), dating from the early Islamic centuries to the present day, It had different fooos that gripped the whole Muslim world in less or more acute form, This work identified three periods of resurgence the history of Islam, Pre Modem or Islamic Revivalism, Modem or Islamic Reformism and Neo-Modem or Islamic Radicalism, Tajikistan remained pan parcel of their region while sharing a historical twirl, common faith and civilization with Muslims in the rest of the world, passing through the period of Islamic revivalism and Islamic reformism Tajikistan bas entered its tbird period of Islamic and that is radicalism This work empbasized the third phase of the Islamic resurgence, In the period of radicalization ofIslam in Tajikistan, two must be separated, Islamic survival and Islamic revivalism. The Soviet period can be teooed as Islamic survival; despite soviets atheist propaganda, religion remains the major identity of the people because like every Muslim of the world, Islam is of Tajik culture, The last ten years of the Soviet Union can be called the time ofIslamic revivaL With internal there are external factors that give a new shape to the Islam in Tajikistan and it is labeled as radical Islam, extreme Islam, militant Islam or fundamentalists. This is purely an external dimension and not the out growth of traditional, tolerant, and moderate Central Asian Islam, The internal factors for the revival ofIslam in Tajikistan resulted in the acceptance of the external influence, The post 91 II developments are indicative of resurgence of nationalism in the v region, but in Tajikistan Islamic forces seems to have brighter prospects. since owing to the fragmentary nature ofTajik national identity, Islam can emerge as the only stabilising factor, an anchor and reference to mass mobilisation can coalesce around. While being the member of international community, it has to rely on nationalistic ideolc,gy.