Politicizing Islam in Central Asia : From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads 9780197685082, 9780197685075, 9780197685068

Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads 0197685072, 9780197685075

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Politicizing Islam in Central Asia: From the Russian Revolution to the Afghan and Syrian Jihads 0197685072, 9780197685075

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The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia 1421420503, 9781421420509

During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians--Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks--perished

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Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration 9780300162899

The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century Eur

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From Shamanism to Sufism Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia 9780755608478, 9781848853096

Women have traditionally played a vital part in Islam throughout Central Asia - the vast area from the Caspian Sea to Si

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Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia 9780520957862

How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik

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The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence 0415493471, 9780415493475

The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of

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Stalin in Power: The Russian Revolution From Above, 1928-1941

This book forms the second volume of Tucker's biography of Stalin, the first volume of which, Stalin as Revolutiona

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The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols 9781784534905, 9781838609399, 1784534900

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eura

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Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution 1108483739, 9781108483735

Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat i

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