The end of communism has revived the historical debate about Russia's relations with both the West and the East. Some commentators viewed the Russian-Chechen war as a clash of civilizations, which would shape the future relationships between the new Russia and its Muslim periphery and perhaps lead to its disintegration. But the reality has challenged this scenario. This book surveys the public and private relations between Russia and Islam and concludes these are more complex than is usually recognized.

Preface Technical Note List of Maps Acknowledgements Glossary Russia's Encounter with Islam: (622-1480) Russia and its Muslim Neighbours: 1480-1881 Russia's Umma and Modernization at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century Muslin's under Soviet Rule: 1917-1991 Russia's Muslims after the Collapse of Communism Chechnya and Political Islam Conclusion Bibliography Index

GALINA M. YEMELIANOVA is Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Yemen During the First Ottoman Conquest, 1538-1635, Moscow: Nauka, 1988 and has published extensively on Islamic history and politics.