ABSTRACT Based on an ethnographic case study of an Islamic university in Russia, I examine how the state-implemented and bureaucratized traditionalization of Islam in Russia affects the everyday life of Central Asian students and how this project ‘from above’ is entangled with their coping strategies. I show how religious education has become a resource for the state as well as for young students and their parents. The Russian state uses these official religious institutions to control the Muslim population by creating and promoting a state-approved version of ‘traditional Islam’ and producing official religious specialists. For the young Muslim students, however, Islamic education provides, in addition to religious knowledge, access to networks, social security and new economic opportunities. It thereby offers a way to cope with the uncertainty caused by high unemployment rates and other socio-economic difficulties among young people.

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挪用和对抗“传统伊斯兰教”：鞑靼斯坦俄罗斯伊斯兰大学的中亚学生

摘要 基于俄罗斯一所伊斯兰大学的民族志案例研究，我研究了俄罗斯国家实施和官僚化的伊斯兰教传统化如何影响中亚学生的日常生活，以及这个“自上而下”的项目如何与他们的应对策略纠缠在一起. 我展示了宗教教育如何成为国家以及年轻学生及其父母的资源。俄罗斯国家利用这些官方宗教机构通过创建和推广国家认可的“传统伊斯兰教”版本并培养官方宗教专家来控制穆斯林人口。然而，对于年轻的穆斯林学生来说，伊斯兰教育除了提供宗教知识外，还提供接触网络、社会保障和新的经济机会。