Muslim Eurasia (1995) looks at the Muslim states that came into being on the ruins of the Soviet Union, and their complex legacies of Russian colonialism, russification, de-islamicization, centralization and communism – on top of localism, tribalism and Islam. The interaction and contradictions within each category, and between them, form the essence of the struggle to formulation new identities.
Author(s): Yaacov Ro’i
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 344
City: London
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Maps
Preface
Note on Orthography
Introduction
1: The Secularization of Islam and The USSR's Muslim Areas
2: Islam and Fundamentalism in Independent Central Asia
3: Does Islamic Fundamentalism Exist in Russia?
4: Islam and Ethnic Identity in Central Asia: A View from Below
5: Geopolitics and Ethnic Problems of Uzbekistan and Its Neighbours
6: Regionalism and Clan Loyalty in the Political Life of Uzbekistan
7: Tajikistan: Political Parties in an Inchoate National Space
8: A Year of Rule by the Popular Front of Azerbaijan
9: Unity, Diversity and Conflict in the Northern Caucasus
10: Soviet Muslims: Gains and Losses as a Result of Soviet Language Planning
11: Independence and The Declining Priority of Language Law Implementation in Uzbekistan
12: The Modernization of Demographic Behaviour in the Muslim Republics of the Former USSR
13: The Economies of Central Asia: The Socialist Legacy
14: Roots of Diversity and Conflict: Ethnic and Gender Differences in the Work Force of the Former Republics of Soviet Central Asia
15: The Russians in Central Asia and Kazakhstan
Afterword
Notes on Contributors
Glossary
Index
