A perfect umma? How ethnicity shapes the organization and operation of Dagestan's jihadist groups

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F18%3A10375440" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/18:10375440 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796817700933" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796817700933</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796817700933" target="_blank" >10.1177/1468796817700933</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A perfect umma? How ethnicity shapes the organization and operation of Dagestan's jihadist groups

Original language description

Drawing on unique interviews with former jihadists from Russia&apos;s autonomous republic of Dagestan, this article is the first to examine the impact of ethnicity on jihadist groups&apos; methods of organization and operations, primarily in terms of their target selection, local support, and recruitment and leadership policies. It distinguishes between largely monoethnic rural jamaatsor jihadist groupsand multiethnic urban jamaats, pointing to the contested nature of ethnicity, particularly in the latter group. It examines the steps taken by the leadership of urban jamaats to overcome ethnic cleavages and avoid interethnic tension both within the jihadists&apos; ranks and with regard to the local population. The article illustrates that, as a divisive phenomenon in multiethnic urban jamaats, ethnic identity has been deliberately downplayed by the leadership of these groups at the expense of strengthening supra-ethnic Salafi-jihadist identity. The article also highlights the significance of ethnic identity in jihadist groups, in spite of it being contradictory to Salafi-jihadist doctrine.

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

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ethnicities

ISSN

1468-7968

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

434-453

UT code for WoS article

000432063300007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85046707772