Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: from the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads
In 'Politicizing Islam', Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements - first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobili...
| Summary: | In 'Politicizing Islam', Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements - first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization across numerous post-Soviet Central Asian countries, she covers over a century and explains the strategies and relative success of each movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam and ideology motivated and enabled Islamist mobilization. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-768510-5 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197685068.001.0001 |
