Russia's Muslim Frontiers New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis

In this collection of essays, Russian, Central Asian, and American scholars assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of their respective past and present approaches to understanding political and religious developments in the Muslim world. Discusses: U.S. and Soviet conduct in the Middle East after WW2; the endurance of supposedly suppressed or obliterated religious and national identities in the Cental Asian nations; the Soviet Union's failed attempt to establish secular socialist rule in Afghanistan; tribe and national identities among the Bakhtiyari and Kurds of Iran; the Islamization of Pakistan; and a call for new directions in the cross-cultural analysis of politics and religion in Muslim states.Eickelman, Dale F. is the author of 'Russia's Muslim Frontiers New Directions in Cross-Cultural Analysis' with ISBN 9780253208231 and ISBN 0253208238.