DAGESTANI ETHNO-MUSLIM COMMUNITY: BETWEEN ISLAMIC GLOBALIZATION AND LOCAL TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

The paper examines the circumstances that predetermined the rapid transformation of the Dagestani ethno-Muslim community in the post- Soviet period. Muslim globalization has become a key characteristic of this transformation. This general trend set the framework within which the fol- lowing processes developed, which predetermined not only the change in the institutional and political characteristics of local Islam, but also the nature of state-Islamic relations in Dagestan. These processes were expressed in the fol- lowing: internationalization of Dagestani Islam, which developed in the form of active international contacts of local Muslims; the emergence of network forms of international between believing youth; the transformation of the “fight against terrorism” into an element of the political and civil life of the Republic. The indicated dynamics has led to the fact that a multi-subject system of the politicization of Islam has developed in the republic. The most important char- acteristic of the Islam-political transformation of Dagestan can be considered the evolution from religious and political confrontation to the complication of Islamic and political relations in the context of the “globalization” of the Rus- sian Muslim community.