Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads

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A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups. Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam. Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in post-Soviet...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0197685064

ISBN13:9780197685068

Release Date:June 2023

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:536 Pages

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality

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