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EUROPEAN ISLAM. THE CASE OF POLISH TATARS

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Wiktor-Mach D.
Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies
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2008
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issue 23
135-146
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The discourse on European Islam focuses on the developments inside contemporary Muslim immigrant communities and stresses the dynamics and transformations of the religion in the changing social context. In such perspective one point is missing - the example of 'indigenous' Muslim minorities, such as the Poles of Tatar origin, who, in the course of the history, adapted some elements of Islamic culture and developed the first variants of Euro-Islam. The paper explores the socio-cultural processes that contributed to the emergence of an European identity of the Polish Tatars' community. Some aspects of the negotiation of social identity are analyzed, and the role of the state and state's policy towards Tatar group are shown, are as well as some inspirations for the Tatar modernist ideas in the Islamic reformist movements.
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REFLECTIONS ON TATAR CULTURE (Refleksje nad kultura tatarska)

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Warminska K.
Przegląd Zachodni
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2010
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issue 3(336)
103-116
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Scholars who study the problem of Polish Tatars assume a variety of perspectives in their analyses; some look for hard determinants of ethnic distinctiveness, while others allow those interested speak for themselves and just listen to their reflections or watch the activities they undertake on account of their shared identity. Adopting the latter perspective in her analysis, the author treats Tatar culture as a symbolic source, which is used by its creators, hosts or heirs in a variety of ways in social relations, for a range of reasons, and in multiple circumstances in order to give meaning to the world. On this understanding, the vision of ethnicity does not presuppose the existence of a set of cultural characteristics inherent in a group. It assumes that ethnicity is produced by social practices. In her article the author shows how Polish Tatars 'do' culture in response to their own needs and the needs of the social milieu in which they function.
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