Former BBC journalist Bagila Bukharbayeva seeks to better understand the Uzbek government’s use of Islam to achieve its consolidation of...

The book examines Tajikistan through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important...

Leadership and Authority in Central Asia identifies traditional forms of religious authority within the network of religious functionaries at a...

This volume aims to shed light on various aspects of mazars from the points-of-view of twenty different specialists, aiding readers...

The book "Soldiers of the Caliphate: Myths and reality" by the famous Kazakh political scientist Erlan Karin provides answers to...

This book is the result of three years of research on Holy sites, which was carried out by the Aigine...

The book describes Russia's spiritual colonization through education and learning. It analyzes the essence of the twin policies of Russification...

Three essays—by a historian of Central Asian Islam, a Uyghur folklorist, and the curator of an accompanying exhibition at the...

Based on evidence derived from over fifteen years of fieldwork, From Shamanism to Sufism shows how women kept traditional Islamic...

This book examines the terrorist threat in Central Asia, including the effects that the War on Terror and invasion of...

A narrative about the life of Bahodur Iskandarov, academician of Tajikistan's Academy of Sciences and his explorations of the blind...