Russias Muslim Heartlands - Islam in the Putin EraPaperback
Russias Muslim Heartlands - Islam in the Putin EraPaperback Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their…
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Russias Muslim Heartlands - Islam in the Putin EraPaperback
Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren, living in the lands between Bukhara,Kazan and the Caucasus, once again have access to their historical traditions. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque.
At the highest levels, Islam has been swept up into Russia's broader search for identity, as the old question of eastern versus western takes on new force.Dominic Rubin has spent the last three years interviewing Muslims across Russia, from Sufi shaykhs in Dagestan, new Muslim artists on the Volga and professionals in Kyrgyzstan to guest-workers commuting between Russia and Uzbekistan and Kremlin-sponsored muftis hammering But they also suffer the effects of civil war, mass migration and political instability.
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