Migration and Contemporary Muslim Space in Moscow. Contextualizing North Caucasian Loud Dhikr and the Religious Practices of Central Asian “Folk Mullas”статья
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Аннотация: Over the last fifteen years, the ethnic make-up of Moscow ’ s mosques has
undergone significant change, while the number of practicing Muslims has grown
manifold. These quantitative changes are connected with both the internal migration
of people from the North Caucasian republics (a migration that had already begun in
the early 1990s) and the external migration of natives of Central Asian states, primarily
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kirgizia (a mass migration dating from the 2000s). This
paper is dedicated to two phenomena of contemporary Moscow Muslim life – the loud
dhikr of the Kunta Hajji wird of the Qadiri tariqa, practiced by Chechens and Ingush;
and the religious practices of the Central Asian B uninstitutionalized ^ mullas. Both
spiritual practices are popular and have great significance for a considerable proportion
of Moscow Muslims, including those who do not directly participate in them. What
both practices have in common is also found in their marginal nature with regard both
to institutionalized Moscow Islam and to the fundamentalist trend which is now
gathering steam here. This is an attempt to identify some specific features of contem-
porary Moscow Islam through the analysis of certain practices.