This book discusses the evolution of state governance of Islam and the nature and forms of local Muslims' rediscovery of their 'Muslimness' across post-communist Eurasia.

Galina M. Yemelianova is a Research Associate in the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus at SOAS University of London, UK. She serves on the editorial boards of the Caucasus Survey and Oriens and the National Advisory Board of Europe-Asia Studies.

Egdunas Racius is a Professor in the Department of Area Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Muslims in Europe and the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe.

Preface

Galina M. Yemelianova and Egdunas Racius

Part I: Institutionalized Islam and State-Muslims Relations

1 The Many Faces of Islam in Post-Communist Euraisa

Galina M. Yemelianova and Egdunas Racius

2 Muftis of Central Asia

Galina M.Yemelianova

3 Religious Policy and 'Unholy Ideologies': The Root Causes of Islamic Radicalisation in Kazakhstan

Nodar Karimov

4 State Policies toward Islam in the Early Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

in Azerbaijan: A Comparative Analysis

Altay Goyushov

5 Religious Self-Legitimation, Indoctrination and Pacification:

Efforts of the Chechen Government

Marat Iliyasov

6 Administration of Islam in Russia: The Case of Tatarstan

Renat Bekkin

7 The Plurality of Islamic Officialdom and Public Islam in Ukraine

Oleg Yarosh

8 Institutional Dynamics in Islamic Community and State-Muslim Relations in Lithuania

Egdunas Racius

9 Muslim Authorities and Institutions in Hungary

Dániel Vékony

10 Restoring the House Rules: Governing Religious Pluralism in Bosnia and

Herzegovina after 1990

Zora Hesova

Part II: Muslim communities between tradition and innovation

11 Turkish Islamic influences in Central Asia and the Caucasus since the end of the Soviet Union

Bayram Balci

12 Islamic Revivalism and Women in Kyrgyzstan: The Case of the Tablighi Jamaat

Kishimjan Eshenkulova

13 Social Status and Religious Role of Muhammad Sharif al-Bulghari's

Descendants in Contemporary Uzbekistan

Igor Pankov

14 Many Faces of Islam in Post-Soviet Georgia - Faith, Identity and Politics

Sophie Zviadadze

15 Islamic Traditionalism versus Salafi Islam: The Case of Kabardino-Balkaria

Galina M. Yemelianova and Svetlana I. Akkieva

16 Polish Female Converts to Islam and the Islamic Leadership in Poland

Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Michal Lyszczarz, Joanna Krotofil

17 The revival of The Revival of a Madrasa Tradition in Post-Communist Romania: The Case of Dobruja

Adriana Cupcea

18 Muslim Identities in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Turks and Tatars

Evlogi Stanchev

Index