Geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger (vormals "Anzeiger der philosophisch-historischen Klasse") der ÖAW

“Why study Soviet Islam in the first place?”, or “is Soviet Islam at all significant?” These are of course legitimate questions, for when studying the history of the Muslim world, the USSR is most certainly not the first place that comes to mind. We have tended in the past to think of the USSR as an atheist space where religion barely survived radical policies of modernization and social engineering. Even if it was indeed the case that the USSR devoted massive resources to eliminate religion,...