Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; Glossary; Introduction; The public face of Islam; Islam in Russia: an historical perspective; Islam and power; Official and unofficial Islam; The private face of Islam; Islam and the search for identity; Practising Islam: rituals, ceremonies and the transmission of ethno-Islamic values; Islam in multi-ethnic society: identity and politics; Gender discourses within Russian Islam; Conclusion; Appendix: key events in the history of Russia and Islam; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book demonstrates how far Islam in Russia has been extensively influenced by the Soviet and Russian multi-ethnic context
