1st Edition

Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union

Edited By Galina M. Yemelianova Copyright 2010
300 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the first comprehensive and comparative examination of Islamic radicalisation in the Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union since the end of Communism. Since the 1990s, the ex-Soviet Muslim Volga-Urals, Caucasus and Central Asia have been among the most volatile and dynamic zones of Islamic radicalisation in the Islamic East. Although partially driven by a wider Islamic resurgence... Read more

List of illustrations  Notes on contributors  Acknowledgements  Note on transliteration  Glossary  Introduction - Galina Yemelianova  1. Islamic Radicalisation: A Post-Soviet, or Global Phenomenon? - GalinaYemelianova  2. Islamic Discourse in the Volga-Urals - Rafik Mukhametshin  3. Islam and Politics in Chechniia and Ingushetiia - Vahit Akaev  4. Islam and Islamic Radicalism in Dagestan - Kaflan Khanbabaev  5. Islam and Ethno-Nationalism in the North-Western Caucasus - Domitilla Sagramoso and GalinaYemelianova  6. Islamic Revival and Islamic Activism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan - Rufat Sattarov  7. Islam and Islamism in the Ferghana Valley - Zumrat Salmorbekova and Galina Yemelianova  Conclusion - Galina Yemelianova  Appendix  Bibliography Index

Biography

Galina M. Yemelianova is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her publications include Yemen under the Ottoman Rule, 1538-1635, Russia and Islam: a historical survey and (as co-editor) Islam and Post-Soviet Russia: Private and public faces (also published by Routledge).