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Contextualized violence: politics and terror in Dagestan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov  and
Kimitaka Matsuzato
Magomed-Rasul Ibragimov
Affiliation:
Institute of History, Ethnography, and Anthropology, Dagestan Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Dagestan, Russia
Kimitaka Matsuzato*
Affiliation:
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
*
* Corresponding author. Email: kim@slav.hokudai.ac.jp
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Abstract

Despite the escalating terrorist actions, there is no polarized constellation in the Islamic politics of Dagestan. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) officers regard the corrupt Dagestan authorities to be significantly responsible for the massive conversion of youths to terrorism, and began to contact with moderate Salafis to isolate the “forest brothers” (armed Salafis) in 2010. Exploiting the FSB's soft strategy, secular intellectuals requested to reform the Muslim Spiritual Board of Dagestan by electing a legitimate mufti. Having seen the incompetence of intra-Sufi opposition (non-Avar sheikhs) in the War on Terror, the Spiritual Board jumped on the bandwagon of dialog strategy in 2012. The secular authorities of Dagestan, indifferent to intra-Muslim politics, limit their activities to the call for dialog between the secular authorities and the forest brothers. In this way, political actors hijack the master narrative of the “War on Terror” and these narratives are imported to local politics.

Keywords

DagestanIslamterrorismFSB RFmoderate Salafis
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , March 2014 , pp. 286 - 306
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Copyright © 2014 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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