Devout Muslims or tough highlanders? Exploring attitudes toward ethnic nationalism and racism in Europe's ethnic-Chechen Salafi communities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1287560" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1287560</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1287560" target="_blank" >10.1080/1369183X.2017.1287560</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Devout Muslims or tough highlanders? Exploring attitudes toward ethnic nationalism and racism in Europe's ethnic-Chechen Salafi communities

Original language description

This is the first article that systematically deconstructs the idealised, widely shared view and formal self-representation of Salafis as a de-culturalised group of Muslim believers who are solely devoted to the idea of a uniform Muslim identity and are indifferent to the notions of ethnic nationalism and racism. Drawing on unique interviews with EU-based ethnic-Chechen émigré Salafis, the article illuminates the ways they draw boundaries and consequently construe their ethnic and racial identities as superior and opposed to Muslims stemming from the Middle East and Central Asia. Below the surface of coherent ideologically shaped self-representations, the diaspora Salafis&apos; identities reflect the idea of Chechnya&apos;s mountainous topography being conducive to a superior &apos;national mentality&apos;, racial purity, and cultural uniqueness. Intriguingly, the diaspora-Chechen Salafis&apos; attitudes toward Middle Easterners and Central Asians employ a rhetoric which entails similarities with the notion of imagined geographies and to some extent resembles Western Orientalist discourse. In stark contrast to leading Salafi scholars&apos; statements emphasising a united Muslim identity, which are routinely echoed by outsiders, this article points out the maintenance of strong ethnic-nationalist and racist resentments amongst individual members of this religious community.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

ISSN

1369-183X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

43

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

2616-2633

UT code for WoS article

000417441600008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85011805273