Sponsoring Sufism argues that governments are sponsoring Sufism not only because they
see it as an'apolitical'movement that won't challenge their existing authority, but also that ties …

This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the
traditional Russia-US'Great Game'at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both …

Tajikistan is the only Central Asian state to politically include an Islamist political party—
Hizbi Nahzati Islomii Todjikiston (the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan—IRPT) and to allow …

The article embarks upon a study of political Sufism in contemporary Kazakhstan and
patterns of religious continuity through an examination of Islamic manifestations that stretch …

During the 1990s, there was a general consensus that Central Asia was witnessing an
Islamic revival after independence, and that this occurrence would follow similar events …

THE GREATER “TURKIC WORLD”—THAT IS, TURKEY AND THE MAJORITY of the
Caucasus and Central Asia—has had deep connections to the wider Islamic world ever …

The destruction of Sufi heritage in Timbuktu used and abused heritage to assert sovereignty,
terrorize the living, and repudiate materiality. Archeologists have not analyzed how …

As a consequence of Russian and Soviet domination in Central Asia, local Islam has been
considerably isolated from the rest of the Muslim world. However, the end of the Soviet …

It was evidently a 10th-century Sufi from what we may count as Central Asia who first
formulated a brief saying, relevant for Sufi history, that became quite popular in later Sufi …

The Problem There is a growing need to explore the role of the centuries-old tradition of
Sufism and its teachings which, through social movements, have contributed to, and …