POLITICAL ISLAM AND CONFLICTS IN RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA

Lena Jonson, Murad Esenov

Contents

• Preface

• Lena Jonson
• Introduction

PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL ISLAM

• Aleksei Malashenko
• Islam and Politics in Central Asian States

• Keith Martin
• Whither Central Asia’s Islamic Radicals? A Comparative Framework for Examining Political Islam in Central Asia

• Anna Matveeva
• The Islamist Challenge in Post-Soviet Eurasia

PART II: DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA

• Vakhit Akaev
• Religious–Political Conflict in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

• Amri Shikhsaidov
• Islam in Dagestan

• Aislu Yunusova
• Islam Between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains

• Leonid Sykiäinen
• Shari’ah and Muslim-Law Culture

PART III: POLITICAL ISLAM IN CENTRAL ASIA

• Ashirbek Muminov
• Traditional and Modern Religious–Theological Schools in Central Asia

• Bakhtiyar Babadzhanov
• The Fergana Valley: Source or Victim of Islamic Fundamentalism?

• Saodat Olimova
• Political Islam and Conflict in Tajikistan

• List of Arabic terms