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Islamic Assertiveness and the Waning of the Old Soviet Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Muriel Atkin
Muriel Atkin*
Affiliation:
The George Washington University
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The Soviet Union has a Muslim population about the size of Turkey's. Definition is a problem because Soviet censuses do not ask about religious convictions. All one can say is that those nationalities which have traditionally been predominantly Muslim number, according to the 1989 census, approximately 55 million people out of a total population which exceeds 285 million. Although it is common to refer to “Soviet Muslims” as if they constituted a monolithic community, these millions of people are in fact diverse in terms of their religious traditions, current attitudes toward their ancestral faith, nationality, and numerous other secular aspects of life as well. This essay will attempt to describe all the forms of Islamic activity among the Muslim peoples of the Soviet Union, but will consider the status of Islam primarily in Central Asia, where the largest number of the Soviet Union's traditionally Muslim nationalities live, and especially the republic of Tajikistan, where the status of Islam largely resembles that of other important parts of the region.

Type
Part II: Muslim and Jewish Communities
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 20 , Issue 1: Special Issue - Religious Consciousness In The Glasnost Era , Spring 1992 , pp. 53 - 72
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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