PUBLICATION: Islam and the Russian Language (Bustanov/Kemper) Alfrid K. Bustanov/Michael Kemper (eds.), Islamic Authority and the Russian Language: Studies on Texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia (Amsterdam: Pegasus 2012, Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies [POES] vol. 19), 416 pp; ISBN 9789061433705; € 32,00 (paperback) This volume offers a selection of texts by Muftis, Sufi shaykhs, preachers and Islamic intellectuals neo-Muslims, from Moscow, Kazan, Siberia, Daghestan and Chechnya, in English translation. The texts are analysed as to how linguistic features reflect strategies at establishing authority on Islam in Russia, from the 1950s to the present. Many specialists have observed that Russian is gradually becoming the new lingua franca of Islam in the Russian Federation. If this is the case, how do Islamic dignitaries and writers in Russia use the Russian language? When and for what purposes are Arabic/Islamic loan words introduced into Russian, and what happens if, to the contrary, Islamic concepts are completely translated into the existing Russian religious lexicon that is based on Old Church Slavonic? What kind of “styles” or variants of “Islamo-Russian” are emerging, and what are the authors’ strategies when employing this or that style? Contents: A.K. Bustanov/M. Kemper, “Introduction: Voices of Islam in Russian” A.K. Bustanov/M. Kemper, “From Mirasism to Euro-Islam: The Translation of Islamic Legal Debates into Tatar Secular Cultural Heritage” M. Kemper/Shamil Shikhaliev, “Administrative Islam: Two Soviet Fatwas from the North Caucasus” M. Kemper, “Mufti Ravil Gainutdin: The Translation of Islam into a Language of Patriotism and Humanism” A.K. Bustanov, “Beyond the Ethnic Traditions: Shamil' Aliautdinov's Muslim Guide to Success” M. Kemper, “The Discourse of Said-Afandi, Daghestan’s Foremost Sufi Master” A.K. Bustanov, “Rafail' Valishin's ‘Anti-Wahhabi’ Sufi Traditionalism in Rural Western Siberia” M. Kemper, “Jihadism: The Discourse of the Caucasus Emirate” M. Kemper, “Shii Islam for the Russian Radical Youth: Anastasiia (Fatima) Ezhova’s ‘Khomeinism’” “Vadim (Harun) Sidorov, ‘We are No Fascists, We Are Sufis’” [transl. M. Kemper] M. Kemper, “Comparative Conclusion: ‘Islamic Russian’ as a New Sociolect?” See for ordering: http://www.pegasusboek.nl/poes-19-islamic-authority-and-the-russian-language.html Kemper