Islam in Politics in Russia and Central Asia

Stephane A. DUDOIGNON, research fellow in the CNRS, Strasbourg, works primarily on the social history of the intellectual and spiritual authorities in Muslim Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia). KOMATSU Hisao, professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, and the Secretary-general ofthe IAS Project, works on the modem history of Central Asia.

• Part One: Community Building in the Russian Dar al-Harb State Policy and its Impact on the Formation of a Muslim Identity in the Volga-Urals; The Tatar Ratusha of Kazan: National Self-Administration in Autocratic Russia, 1781-1855; Status, Strategies and Discourses of a Muslim Clergy under a Christian Law: Polemics about the Collection of the Zakdt in Late Imperial Russia Part Two: Towards a Restoration of the Dar aI-Islam State Building in Twentieth Century Muslim Central Asia. Two Attempts at Building a Qazaq State: The Revolt of 1916 and the Alash Movement; When Faizulla Khojaev Decided to Be an Uzbek; The Sufi Networks in Southern Xinjiang During the Republican Regime (1911-1949): An Overview; The Eastern Turkistan Republic (1933-1934) in Historical Perspective; Part Three: The Role of the Religious (fulama) and the Literati (udaba) Bukhara and Istanbul: A Consideration about the Background of the Munazara; Islam and Politics in Twentieth Century Uzbek Literature; Muhammadjan Hindustani (1892-1989) and the Beginning of the Great Schism among the Muslims of Uzbekistan; The Islamic Clergy in Tajikistan since the End of the Soviet Period; Part Four: Contemporary Issues Islam and Political Mobilization, from Tajikistan to the Suburbs of Moscow. A Surmountable Summit? Islam in Contemporary Qyrghyzstan: Its Role and Significance for the Individuals, the Society, and the State; Official and Unofficial Islam in Contemporary Tatarstan: Islam's Position in Tatar Society and the Emergence of an Independent Islamic Theoretical Perspective; Islam and Politics in Russia in the 1990s; Islam in the Ferghana Valley: Challenges for New States