Annotation. Our image of Islam in the Soviet Union has changed a lot in the last three decades. During the Cold War period, Western observers were mainly driven

This book provides a comparative history of Islamic education in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet countries. Case studies on Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan

Provides a sophisticated account of both the internal dynamics and external influences in the evolution of Islam in the region

The Western field of oriental studies and orientalism - criticised by Edward Said among others for encouraging the orient to be viewed in a particular way - has

Based largely on official Soviet archive material, this study describes and analyses all aspects of Islam which relate to the Soviet domestic scene, with the pu