This book traces the evolution and changing course of the relationship between communists and Muslims from the emergence of communism after the First World War to the present day.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

1. An Unholy Alliance against the Common Enemy: A History of Communists' Relations with Muslims Ben Fowkes and Bülent Gökay 2. The Imperial Reification of the Qur'an Vassilis K. Fouskas 3. 'Enverists' and 'Titoists' - Communism and Islam in Albania and Kosova, 1941-99: From the Partisan Movement of the Second World War to the Kosova Liberation War Stephen Schwartz 4. Assessing Unholy Alliances in Chechnya: From Communism and Nationalism to Islamism and Salafism Cerwyn Moore and Paul Tumelty 5. Uneasy Alliances: British Muslims and Socialists since the 1950s Farzana Shain 6. A Bibliographical Essay on the History of Communism and Communists in the Muslim World Ben Fowkes

Ben Fowkes has lectured at a number of universities in the course of his career, including Sheffield University and London Metropolitan University. He is a specialist in studies of Soviet, East European and communist history, and the author of several publications in these areas.

Bülent Gökay is Professor of International Relations at Keele University. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, and the author of many publications in this area, as well as in the fields of Middle Eastern and international politics.