Open AccessEuro-Islam and Muslim Communities of Ukraine
Author(s) -
T. Hazyr-Ogly
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2009.50.2061
Subject(s) - tatar , ukrainian , islam , kazakh , ethnic group , political science , volga region , immigration , geography , ethnology , sociology , law , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy
The problem of the revival and existence of Islam in Ukraine is now exacerbated by the multivariate models of its development. The emergence of several models of Islam in the religious space of Ukraine is due to the fact that in the early 1990s the Ukrainian Ummah united around three independent and competing centers by ethnic factor, namely, the Crimean Tatar (DUMK), Tatar or Volga-Tatar. (DMU) and Immigrant (DMU). Today, this situation has been complicated by the emergence of two more spiritual centers: the Volga, Kazan or Bashkir-Tatar (religious management of independent Muslim communities - the "Kyiv Muftiate") and the Ukrainian one, where the majority are converts of Ukrainians ('UMA').