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 opposition in post-Soviet...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197685064
• ISBN13: 9780197685068
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 536 Pages