Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia

Adeeb Khalid's history of Soviet religious policy toward Islam in Central Asia and of the region's religious life since the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. Khalid is a historian of Central Asia at Carleton College, and this University of California Press monograph is a standard scholarly account of the closure and destruction of the great majority of the region's mosques, madrasas and Sufi lodges under Soviet anti-religious campaigns, and of the rapid revival of mosque building, religious education and public religious practice after 1991. Use it for the dated arc from Soviet suppression to post-Soviet revival; a claim about a specific present-day national religious policy needs a more current source.