Product Description: For centuries, Central Asia has been a leading civilization, an Islamic heartland, and a geographical link between West and East. After a long traditional history, it is now in a state of change. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, five newborn Central Asian states have emerged in place of the former Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The terrible events afflicting Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan fill the news, commanding the world's attention. This timely volume offers rare insight into the background of these catastrophic conflicts. First published in German on the eve of the breakup of the Yugoslav and Soviet republics, it is one of the few books in any language to analyze, in detail and in depth, the historical and contemporary situation of Muslims in former communist states and thus clarifies the sources, development, and implications of the events that dominate today's foreign news...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sadr-i Ziya's diary lends valuable perspective to numerous studies narrowly focused upon the modern Reformists (Jadids) of his area. It also reveals the endless occupational and mortal uncertainties tormenting a Central Asian Islamic judge practising his profession within an aged political and economical system deteriorating during the last decades, circa 1880-1920, of the state of Bukhara...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Edward A. Allworth’s The Tatars of Crimea has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homeland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)