With Islamic radicalization a critical issue in post 9/11 global politics, this book provides a timely examination of Islamic radicalization in the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union since the end of Communism.

Galina M. Yemelianova is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her publications include Yemen under the Ottoman Rule, 1538-1635, Russia and Islam: a historical survey and (as co-editor) Islam and Post-Soviet Russia: Private and public faces (also published by Routledge).

1. Islamic Radicalisation: A Post-Soviet, or Global Phenomenon? 2. Islamic Discourse in the Volga-Urals 3. Islam and Politics in Chechniia and Ingushetiia 4. Islam and Islamic Radicalism in Dagestan 5. Islam and Ethno-Nationalism in the North-Western Caucasus 6. Islamic Revival and Islamic Activism in post-Soviet Azerbaijan 7. Islam and Islamism in the Ferghana Valley