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

by Kathleen Collins

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197685072
• ISBN13: 9780197685075
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"